Unless Oberweis quits his race in November, Foster will be in there until at least 2011. If Oberweis runs again in 2010... then 2013. Lauzen is the only one who can take him out now.
I was very discouraged by this result but maybe things aren’t all that bad. I had thought other GOP held House seats had fallen to the Dems in special elections but I think this is the first one. Other Dems who won special elections replaced other Dems. We can only hope this IL race was an aberration. But lumping this in with losing the KY governor’s race last year, and Republicans losing their majority in the VA state senate, the trends are not good.