That the general election race is a tossup?
Borling emerged from central casting as Elmer Fudd.
Let us not despair The state AFL-CIO endorsed Hynes but Chicago left Afro-American State Senator Obama (change just one letter and...) is playing the race card in gathering endorsements from black union locals.
Jack Ryan also quit his investment banking career in which the Chicago boy of modest roots parlayed his Dartmouth and Harvard degrees into a $50 million fortune by age 40 to teach the tricks of that trade to ghetto kids on the notorious South Side of Chicago. He first offered to do so in public schools but the Machine would not put him to work teaching without a certificate so he turned to a black Catholic Franciscan Boys' High School instead. Jack Ryan may be the most interesting GOP Senate nominee of 2004 and the biggest upset winner. Oberweis is a terminal lightweight who inherited his wealth. The Illinois GOP establishment (the liberal airheads and crooks) are too busy praying not to join their last sell-out moderate governor/crook in the federal hoosegow to much affect this race. Judy Bahr Topinka, fashionably attired in horizontal stripes, her outfit matching Lyin' George Ryan's (George is NOT related to Jack in ANY way).