To "Sad in Illinois"; consider also the plight of the outstate Minnesotans who have been totally outvoted every election except 1972 by the communist sympathizers in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
There are a lot of us suburbanites that also regularly get out-voted by those in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Anoka is starting to look a little better, a lot of precintcs there (6 of 8 I believe) went to Bush/Cheney...