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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Then again, maybe she is what the Republicans have now become. I will never vote for her, no matter what. She is a liberal swine.
The problem with Illinois, is that it about 65% democrat. The only way a republican gets in state wide, is when the down state democrats get the shaft from the Chicago democrats and vote for the Republican.
"Lyin" Ryan is a swine. He is going to prison where he belongs.
Personally I think Blago is in trouble.. He is already showing ads for his campaign. I think that Topinka is going to win and the only reason why that Daley Sock Puppet won cause of George Ryan.. I don't know if I'm going to vote.. I'm not going to vote for the Constitution Party candidate (to be honest I'll never vote for the Constitution Party)..
It was due to mainly the down state rats not passing the gun bill..
How would that be helpful if she is a Democrat pretending to be a Republican? She is pro death, anti- 2nd amendment, high tax and her personality sucks. In fact she is an imbecile.
If that is what "helps" Republicans, they should forever vanish from the earth.
not a very good article...
My liberal mother hates Blago and will be voting for JBT.
this is a really poorly written piece...what do NY and CA have to do with a GOP revival in IL?
The only reason why that Blago won in 02 was due to Lyin Ryan...
the state is not 65% DEM.
IL is actually a liberal GOP state. But since the GOP took congress in 1994 and Clinton was a successful Prez, States like IL. ME and CT have gone DEM.
What has happen in IL since 1988(last year a GOP won in IL for Prez) is this:
The City has gone from 65-35 DEM to 80-20
The Suburbs have gone from 60-40 GOP to probably 52-48 GOP with the Cook suburbs being 60-40 DEM, but Dupage, Kane McHenry are still GOP. Lake was a GOP strong hold but it now slightly DEM
IL was never a conservative state even when it was a GOP stronghold. Never had a conservative Gov, supported Ford over Reagan in 1976 primaries, Bob Michel was the epitomy of a RINO, Percy ditto, Dirksen was ok. Fitzgerald only won cuz Carol Mostly Farud was so incompetent and thought that all you had to do as Senator in IL was cater to the wishes of Cook country. She lost downstate counties like Champaign and Rock Island 3-1. She even managed to lose St. Clair County.
Downstate where the conservative base resides is losing population. Only Bloomington/Normal is growing
IL would probably vote GOP for Prez if McCain or Rudy ran.
"How would that be helpful if she is a Democrat pretending to be a Republican? She is pro death, anti- 2nd amendment, high tax and her personality sucks. In fact she is an imbecile."
yikes relax man lol you have too much caffeine or what. I do not live in Illinois so i do not know all of her positions. If you check out my posts i was merely checking the numbers on possible wins/losses in Governor races across the country based on recent polling trends.
Before Prop. 187, the California GOP got a lot more of the Hispanic vote there than afterward. Thanks to Planned Barrenhood Pete Wilson, the California GOP is essentially dead.
This post is frustrated and not hostile, however it may seem.
Yikes! Come to man! LOL. Perhaps people who keep track of freedom and conservativism by counting R's and D's after poliiticians names should drink an extra cup of coffee so they could be a tad more alert.
IOW some democrat decided she has a better chance as a RINO than as a democrat because she is not insider enough.
YAWN!
Sombody just paint the phonebooth so the IL GOP will be happy at their meetings.
No problem, thank you for your thoughts on the issue. So the writer is correct that Prop 187 did serious long term damage to Republican chances in California, even though it passed at the time?
IL could go for Rudy, but not for McCain - he's too conservative.
"Yikes! Come to man! LOL. Perhaps people who keep track of freedom and conservativism by counting R's and D's after poliiticians names should drink an extra cup of coffee so they could be a tad more alert.
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geez did i write that! yeah i was in a rush and am trying to lay off caffeine so i apologize for the incorrect wording. Grief that is pretty bad. Anyhoot never did say i tracked Freedom and Conservatism by counting Rs and Ds merely making an observation and analysis based on which party would control which Governorships. I did not say anything else nor did i imply such.
The lesson to be learned from the IL GOP primary for Governor is that it is very possible for Rudy to become the 2008 Presidential nominee. With conservatives lacking consensus over a candidate, a RINO like Rudy could easily sneak away with the GOP nomination and win the White House. Judy Topinka may have given Rudy a road map to the Presidency.
It stands to reason that groups and individuals prefer to be welcomed rather than bashed. As long as the pro-aborts run the California GOP, we will be behind the eight-ball on electoral votes there. California is going to be a very looooong war. Perhaps, with God's help, we will catch a break and the California Demonrats will offend the Chicanos as seriously as Planned Barrenhood Wilson did and that a sizable cadre of social conservatives will await with a practical recruitment plan.
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