Posted on 03/13/2006 8:50:23 PM PST by LdSentinal
CHICAGO, March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich maintains a comfortable advantage over his Democratic primary rival, while Judy Baar Topinka, the state's three-term treasurer, is losing some of her sizable lead over the pack of potential Republican candidates for governor, according to a new Chicago Tribune / WGN-TV poll. Complete story and poll results appear in the Tuesday, March 14, edition of the Chicago Tribune and online at chicagotribune.com/elections .
The poll, surveying 600 likely voters in the Republican primary and another 600 indicating they would cast a Democratic ballot, was conducted March 8-12 by Market Shares Corp. of Mt. Prospect, Ill., and has an error margin of 4 percentage points.
With just a week before the March 21 election, the new poll results -- similar to one conducted last month -- show Blagojevich and Topinka still as the front-runners. If they each win their party's nomination, the two will spar in the November 7 general election for the governor's seat.
Among the Democrats, Blagojevich has the support of 67 percent of voters who were polled compared with 18 percent for challenger Edwin Eisendrath, a former Chicago alderman. Another 14 percent are undecided, and 2 percent say they would vote for someone else. Since February's poll, Blagojevich's standing gained 5 percentage points while Eisendrath's remained the same.
In the Republican contest, Topinka continues to lead in this race but now by 15 percentage points over Aurora businessman Jim Oberweis, not the 21 points she claimed over him last month.
The poll found 36 percent of voters -- who are likely to cast a Republican ballot supporting -- Topinka. Oberweis was favored by 21 percent while 15 percent backed Bill Brady, a state senator from Bloomington. Another 9 percent voted for Chicago businessman Ron Gidwitz, 1 percent for Internet journalist Andy Martin and 18 percent were still undecided
Topinka wins. Oberweis is a two-time loser and Gidwitz is a nobody.
Oberweis.2004 - 23.5% (Immigrants are bad)
Oberweis.2006 - ??.?% (KJ is bad)
If Topinka wins the nomination, then we should support Randy Stufflebeam in the general. Better Blag than Judy's George Ryan in drag.
topinka will be eviscerated as a ryan clone.
I already early voted for Brady.
And the Tribune endorses a candidate for the GOP primary (Gidwitz) who promises to finish 4th. The Trib--showing its familiarity with the GOP voter once again.
I will be voting Sandy Wegman for Lt. Governor. She's really been taking one for the team lately, aiming her commercials at Judy Baar, even though she isn't running for that office.
Rausch and Birkett ain't bad at all, though. But I'm going to let Sandy know that taking one for the Conservative movement is an heroic move I won't forget. Since any of the three are good choices, I will go with the most Conservative choice.
Both the papers endorsed Pro-Abortion Republicans.
What a shocker!!!
Out-of-touch dinosaurs, that's all........
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