Posted on 04/12/2006 8:48:31 AM PDT by neverdem
CHICAGO — Illinois’ northernmost bit is north of Cape Cod and its southern tip is south of Richmond, Va.
Scattered the length of the state, from the Wisconsin to the Kentucky border are fragments of wreckage from the state party that produced the first Republican president.
In the last four presidential elections, Republican candidates have averaged just 40 percent of the Illinois vote. In 2004, the Republican Senate candidate, a raging resident of Maryland, won just 27 percent of the vote.
Judy Topinka, 62, the effervescent three-term state treasurer and Republican gubernatorial nominee against Gov. Rod Blagojevich, thinks she can put Humpty Dumpty together again. Republicans everywhere should hope a new poll is accurate in showing her three points ahead among registered voters.
In California, Republican presidential candidates have not been competitive for three elections. Since 1994, when California Republicans backed an anti-immigrant measure offensive to the Latino population that now is more than one-third of the state’s population, Republicans have won an average of just 41 percent of the presidential vote.
In New York, where Republican presidential candidates in the last four elections have averaged just 35 percent, one candidate for the Senate nomination against Hillary Clinton this year has zero political experience and less-than-zero credibility, having inflated her resume. And if the state party chairman gets his way, the senatorial candidate will be a former Yonkers mayor, who as a married man had two children with his unmarried chief of staff. (He has now married her.)
From Illinois, California and New York, Democratic presidential nominees currently receive, without exertion, 107 electoral votes — 40 percent of the 270 needed to win the presidency.
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Bull and MORE Bull.
Judas is going DOWN. Support, her? Hell I'd rather poke my eyes out with rusty nails first. The only difference between her and ijit Blago is he has nicer hair.
And how can you say "even though she's a gun-grabber", blah blah. That's utterly moronic - go take your meds. And please STAY in Florida -- and DON'T vote, people like you we don't need.
Good question!
Still, from the outside, a strong GOP contender might LOOK like something is going on if you are just looking and not trying to actually learn about what is really going on.
Take this example. What if the seat Lincoln Chaffee now holds is a Democratic seat and Linc. was running and looking fairly strong? Well, from the outside it might look like a possible GOP pickup. But, for ANYONE who really KNOWS Linc. Chaffee, they would realize he is NO Republican but a liberal through and through and that few Republicans support him. So, a Linc. Chaffee seat is an insular, self contained GOP seat because he has NO further contact or influence in the Party, nor does he HELP the Party in ANY way!
Blagojevich couldn't find Springfield on a map of the state, Topinko probably could, other than that there's no discernable difference.
Oh, one more - One's male and one's female. Only Rod looks a little girlish from time to time.
Yes, I support Rudy Guiliani, because he is right on the two most imporant issues: the war on terror and spending
I don't mind having blue state elect RINO's to the U.S. Senate or House, where they're just one of many. But electing a RINO as Governor is a bad idea, as they seem to give conservative sanction to liberal policies.
Bob Taft is the ultimate example of that.
My tagline here used to be "Just say 'No' to Judy Baar Topinka." Blagojevich is so dismal, and I'm trying my best to find something about JBT that I can support. I haven't yet, and I haven't made up my mind about November.
If she wins, this will be a GOP revival only in the sense that the old-guard, checked-pants, Republican establishment will be back in power. She might be more palatable than Blagojevich on a handful of issues, but on a lot of others, there's no difference.
I realize you and many others in Illinois face a difficult choice. If Steven Rauchenberger had stayed in the race and Jim Oberweis had dropped out, I think things would have turned out differently.
Right. The way things shook out during the primary season created some very unfavorable results.
libertarian outlook
Rooting for the Repubs here is like rooting for the Cubs....
No wait... at least the Cubs swept the Cards and won today.
It's simple common-sense. You don't treat cancer by infecting a patient with AIDS.
That's a good analogy!
That's quite a strong statement. I can only imagine what you have to say about the situation in New Jersey.
Where New Jersey is concerned, some things simply don't require additional comments.
Didn't this pass convincingly? Or am I wrong? Why then does everyone continue to criticize Prop 187.
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