So you're predicting 65-35. I would opine that Keyes getting 35% of the vote would be a major victory in the battle to establish conservative in-roads to the minority communities. Yes, it would still be a loss, but it would represent the gaining of a toe hold on the liberalism which is destroying minority communities.
The road to Berlin started with a few brave guys establishing a beachhead at Normandy. I hope that the Republican National leadership has the brains to pump in every available dollar to the Keyes campaign.
We must all understand that if African Americans return to the party which freed them (and which cast the deciding votes in the Civil Rights Act), the democrat party is FINISHED. That's a battle worth fighting, and no one is better qualified to lead the charge than Keyes. Period.
They won't. Expect them to direct funds to races where the candidate has a real chance of winning.
"I would opine that Keyes getting 35% of the vote would be a major victory in the battle to establish conservative in-roads to the minority communities."
A loss by 5% is usually considered a trouncing. How can anyone even begin to think a 35% vote is anything other than a landslide for the other side - get real. Keyes has already proven himself to be a political punching bag in his home state of Maryland - twice. Now he's going to be a carpetbagging loser in Illinois.
Talk is cheap, winning takes a bit more & Keyes has already proven he can't do it with rhetoric alone.
Keyes is going to kill this guy in the debates. It'll be closer than everyone thinks.
I think Keyes might be able to ride the Bush super-landslide in November.