We really should make a strong try for the IL seat. Yes, I know its IL, but the dynamic has changed somewhat with the recent Blagojevich-Burris scandals. People may just be about fed up with ‘Rat scandals. The GOP will have to have a deep, thorough vetting process to come up with a candidate who is free of taint and can run a character-themed campaign that can cut across ideological lines. The candidate can present as someone who will bring respectability back to IL politics, to make the place something more than a laughingstock to the rest of the country. That just might be a winning strategy.
Oh, I agree. Where the Democrats “get it” more than we do, they still go after seats in heavily GOP areas and manage to do well. We just give so many seats a pass, even in areas we OUGHT to have won. We should go after IL, absolutely. With a good candidate, we can cause the False Messiah a nice embarrassment on his home turf (much like how we did with Bubba in ‘96 when we took both the Senate seat and Governorship in AR).