I guess he did really well down state.
The Butcheress only carried 12 counties in IL. 7 of them were by 50% or less. Cook, Lake and Champaign(! - must be all the moonbats at Champaign-Urbana working on the HAL 9000) were her three best, and even in those last two, they were by an underwhelming 56% and 54.7%.
Remove good ole Cook and Trump wins the state 1.69 million to 1.48 million. Well over half of Hillary’s vote in all of IL came from Cook alone.
Check out Dave Leip’s Atlas blue for Republican!
http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/
Checkout the swing (change in D-R margin) and you’ll see how Trump did a lot better downstate and worse in the Chi area.
Trump’s vote share 38.36% was lower than Romney’s 40.66%, and his margin of defeat was greater by a scant 0.05%. So it swing D but barely and that was the fault of the collars. DuPage was nasty, Romney nearly took it back in 2012, went huge for Shillery. Lake was a bastard, Kane was a bastard. Will saw only a slight decline, same in McHenry. Kendall (for Romney) a modest dip, nearly lost it.
He won outside of Cook (so did Romney about 50-47) I had the exact margins figured for a Cook free Illinois going back decades but that info is on my old PC, I think he was at about 49% but a bigger margin than Romney. Obama won in ‘08, Bush won twice, Clitnon won twice by only the tiniest margins.
This is a Republican state, with a giant cancerous tumor called Cook County. It’s not quite “Alabama” like PA outside of Philly and Pitt is called but this is a Republican state. I would love to have some kind of county unit system for statewide elections. Brady took nearly everything and “lost”, Rauner took EVERYTHING but Cook and still it was close enough for Quinn to be a sore loser for a couple days.
The counties DT picked up were mostly in Bustos’s district (as Romney already took back most of the counties that Obama had no business winning in 2008). 46.7 Clinton 47.4 Trump 57.6 Obama 40.6 Romney, big swing. He did better than Bush 2004 in that area of the state. Trump managed to carry Whiteside county which was strongly for Obama in 2012 and hadn’t gone GOP since ‘88. I don’t know what Whiteside’s problem has been. He also won Knox (college town there, my mom and John Podesta were students), last went GOP in 1984! His margin of defeat in Rock Island was cut to 8 points, smallest since ‘84 though Bush ‘04 got a slightly higher vote share while losing by 14.6. Rock Island State Senate seat was picked up by GOP in 2014 (only pickup in either chamber) and Brady and Rauner both carried Rock Island. If that seat wasn’t mandered 6 ways from Sunday, Bustos is GONE baby gone. We need to recruit someone to run for that sucker.
Trump carried Winnebago on election night, late counting of provisional ballots in Rockford flipped it to Hillary.
Elsewhere, Trump carried little Alexander county for the first time since ‘72. He won Madison with 54% and by 15 points, Romney squeaked out a win there by little over a point, hadn’t gone GOP before that since ‘84. He lost St. Clair by less than 6 points.