“Oh and I think Congressman Shimkus would also make a good Senate candidate.”
I like Shimkus, and I know that the Democrats often do well running Downstate candidates statewide, but isn’t it better to run a Republican from the Chicago media market? We need to win big margins in the Chicago suburbs in order to have a chance, and I think that Roskam (or Burzynski, for that matter) would have a better chance of winning large margins in the suburbs than Shimkus. Downstate, apparently Chicago candidates can do well by buying TV ads in those cheaper media markets (that’s how Blago and Obama won their Dem primaries in 2002 and 2004, respectively), and a well financed, socially conservative Republican should be able to do well there even if he is from the Chicago area.
What do you all think?