Speaking of high negatives, what really frustrates me is that there are Dem Governors with negatives in the mid 40s or higher - Corzine, Blago, ME Gov, OR Gov, and Spitzer. Yet, the local GOP parties can’t gain any traction at all.
Yeah, at best, we’ve managed to keep even, but that defies what used to happen in the past in reaction to unpopular incumbent Governor’s parties. ‘06 was a real problem in that it swept even the most unpopular rodent Governors to 2nd terms. But the result this evening was solely due to the fact that the wrong person was nominated for Hastert’s seat (Blago had precious little to do with it). I made the assumption that we’d hold this seat not knowing just how high Oberweis’s negatives were (which I only learned the other day). When I saw them, I knew this race was lost. The only way Oberweis could’ve won was to have driven up Foster’s negatives higher than his. The loss of this seat was inexcusable. Self-financing candidates aren’t the solution every time. You have to stand for something. Oberweis was the IL Romney, an untrustworthy RINO who flipped on the issues in order to win. I couldn’t have voted for him in good conscience, and it looks like neither did a lot of Republicans.