To: jwalsh07
The collar counties, which got the once rabidly conservative Tribune, and were outside the control of the Daley machine, and hated it, tended once to be once of the most GOP places in the US. The Trib has gone liberal, the Daley machine has gone soft and fuzzy and large non corrupt, with a more upscale cultural image, and the collar counties no longer give those mega GOP margins, to check Cook County, and thus Illinois has become rock solid Dem. The Chicago metro area now votes like the Philly metro area, in fact a bit more lib, so it has a bit of NYC metro area mixed in. It is so over for the GOP in Illinois, until the matrix of salient issues changes.
31 posted on
03/14/2004 5:48:02 PM PST by
Torie
To: Torie
You da man.
32 posted on
03/14/2004 5:50:58 PM PST by
jwalsh07
(We're bringing it on John but you can't handle the truth!)
To: Torie
Believe it or not in 1964, Barry Goldwater carried Dupage, McHenry and Kane counties
36 posted on
03/14/2004 6:03:06 PM PST by
raloxk
To: Torie
From what I gather IL has 9 Rat leaning districts and 9 GOP districts with one being a tossup
41 posted on
03/14/2004 6:12:15 PM PST by
KQQL
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