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Dennis Hastert's seat lost in Special Election today
Fox News-Star Tribune ^
| March 8th, 2008
| AP
Posted on 03/08/2008 7:56:08 PM PST by The_Republican
A longtime Republican district fell to the Democrats Saturday when a wealthy businessman and scientist snatched former House Speaker Dennis Hastert's congressional seat in a closely watched special election. Democrat Bill Foster won 52 percent of the vote compared to 48 percent for Republican Jim Oberweis. With 565 of 568 precincts reporting, Foster had 51,140 votes to Oberweis' 46,270.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 110th; billfoster; crap; deathofthegop; foster; hastert; il2008; oberweis
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To: ZULU
This is going to be a VERY bad time for us, thanks to Bush and the RINOs like McCain. BTTT
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posted on
03/08/2008 8:09:11 PM PST
by
org.whodat
(What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
To: The_Republican
The American people are buying into socialism.
Foster promises free health care for everyone.
I would have thought Cook county tax increse would scare
voters away from the democrats but it seems as though the people in Dupage and Kane county want high taxes too.
Apparently, Americans believe that government
is the suckling pig of prosperity.
Does this could foreshadow a huge republican loss in
November?
22
posted on
03/08/2008 8:09:12 PM PST
by
ChiMark
To: tear gas
Well, heck I thought that was a “given”
I only read the IBD!
23
posted on
03/08/2008 8:10:07 PM PST
by
acapesket
(never had a vote count in all my years here)
To: dhs12345
What’s more appalling is that there is a candidate for Congress (another speceial election) with promise in Indianapolis whom the GOP is not supporting because they couldn’t afford to, due to the Oberweis candidacy. How’s that for inept?
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posted on
03/08/2008 8:10:14 PM PST
by
Clintonfatigued
(You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)
To: The_Republican
Like anyone could ever tell the difference.
25
posted on
03/08/2008 8:10:38 PM PST
by
lewislynn
(What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
To: ChiMark
Oberweis was a poor candidate.
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posted on
03/08/2008 8:10:45 PM PST
by
Clintonfatigued
(You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)
To: sport
Things surely look grim. The congress is the only protection we have given who will be the next president. Take your pick fro the terrible trifecta. If congress gets too many more leftists, things will get very ugly for America.
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posted on
03/08/2008 8:11:06 PM PST
by
isrul
(Help make koranimals an endangered species)
To: FlingWingFlyer
November is going to be a massacre. Sorry to be so pessimistic but the handwriting is on the wall. I have to agree
Weve lost our country.
"Calm down" :-) My daughter & her boyfriend, 18 & 20, have recently become committed conservatives. This is how it starts. This was me and millions more in 1978. Take heart.
28
posted on
03/08/2008 8:11:20 PM PST
by
outofstyle
(There's a rake at the gates of Hell tonight)
To: Ann Archy
That and sweeping the gay stuff under the rug! And spending like ten drunk sailors.
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posted on
03/08/2008 8:11:51 PM PST
by
org.whodat
(What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
To: The_Republican
The GOP lost that seat years ago. Now it’s just offical.
30
posted on
03/08/2008 8:13:26 PM PST
by
cva66snipe
(Proud Partisan Constitution Supporting Conservative to which I make no apologies for nor back down)
To: ZULU
Bush was sent to destroy conservatism, and he's done a good job. That said, I'm not going to miss that establishment lard-ass, Hastert.
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posted on
03/08/2008 8:14:42 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
To: Lurker
LOL.
FR is cracking me up tonight.
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posted on
03/08/2008 8:14:54 PM PST
by
SIDENET
(Hubba Hubba...)
To: ChiMark
“The American people are buying into socialism.”
Hence why leadership is important. Someone needs to explain to the American people why “free” this or “free” that is harmful, unconstitutional and freedom is the better way to go. Bush not only did not step up but made the problem worse with his “compassionate conservatism” big govt spending nonsense.
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posted on
03/08/2008 8:15:08 PM PST
by
KantianBurke
(President Bush, why did you abandon Specialist Ahmed Qusai al-Taei?)
To: ZULU
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posted on
03/08/2008 8:15:53 PM PST
by
newzjunkey
(http://www.friendsofsarah.com/ - CA Abortion Notification Petition)
To: billorites
Those who can't teach, coach wrestling.Wait a minute. I only decided to go to medical school when I could not find a teaching job & I lost my job as a wrestling coach.
I'm not kidding.
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posted on
03/08/2008 8:15:55 PM PST
by
outofstyle
(There's a rake at the gates of Hell tonight)
To: The_Republican
It’s always darkest before the dawn.
36
posted on
03/08/2008 8:15:57 PM PST
by
neverdem
To: Tailback
Dontcha mean:
Meet the old boss
Not like the Newt boss.
To: The_Republican
If only Denny had squeezed out one more potato museum during his tenure...
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posted on
03/08/2008 8:17:09 PM PST
by
M203M4
(True Universal Suffrage: Pets of dead illegal-immigrant felons voting Democrat (twice))
To: FlingWingFlyer
We Republicans need to suck it up and get used to this. November is going to be a massacre. Sorry to be so pessimistic but the handwriting is on the wall. Weve lost our country. That new direction the media keeps telling us about is the path to Socialism/Communism. For all the FReepers in my district who think they've done all by merely voting and doing jack s**t when there's far more work than we volunteers can do... it's not so long until I retire and emigrate and leave you to the country you so richly deserve.
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posted on
03/08/2008 8:17:11 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: neverdem
Dennis Hastert Kitteh thinks it's pretty darn dark.
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posted on
03/08/2008 8:20:23 PM PST
by
ketsu
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