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The vote is always fixed in Illinois, I’m sure Romney actually carried DuPage. But Obama’s margin in 2008 was too large for him not to actually have carried it.
Kirk didn’t win DuPage or Lake either. He would have if he wasn’t getting eaten alive. These counties are trending rat, but Republcians in competetive races still win them. Munger won them, but her margins were not impressive, less than 5 points in Lake, 11 in DuPage. 3 in Will (which trended GOP in the POTUS race). We need to make some recovery in these White collar burbs. If Trump can do that nationwide and hold his blue collar gains, he’s reelected.
Heh. You're probably right (Kirk would have won Lake & DuPage if he hadn't inflicted massive damage on himself a week before the election). Still, I enjoy the irony of Kirk losing most of "his" old Congressional district in Lake Co. (well, I know half of it was Melissa Bean's district, but still), given how he and his followers spent years sneering about he was the only kind of "electable" Republican who could "win" the far north suburbs.
Fun fact: I used to argue with "only social moderates can WIN that area" Kirk zombies and point out that both Dan Rutherford and Tony Percicia won Kirk's district handily while running as unabashedly pro-life and pro-gun. Pointing out inconvenient facts like that would quickly make Kirk cheerleaders immediately run away.