Look, Obama is a Socialist.
Keyes is a conservative.
If you care a *whit* about Federalism, the choice is trivial.
saying 'oh, I'm a federalist, so I can't vote for a pro-Constitution candidate who happens to have been in a different state before he got drafted by my state's party to run for office ... well, that's beyond nitpicky'.
Get over it, let's support Keyes in unity and try to win.
Obama is a leftist, and is wrong for the USA and Illinois.
Obama could be the deciding vote that votes down a judicial conservative to the US Supreme Court.
He could be the 50th vote to stop tax cuts, to support amnesty for illegals, to gut tort reform, and to further ruin education with liberal policies on education and an anti-school-choice agenda.
Residency is in the noise compared to the real issues at stake here.
I'm for winning within the rules. The rules in this case were devised by the FOUNDERS who had NO INTENTION that outsiders come in and "run" to "represent" people of another state.
Do you realize what you are opening the door to? Any sports icon/Hollywood celebrity who has 10 years' worth of free advertising descending on, say, Montana and "rescuing" the state. Nope, it's wrong.