So you would refuse to vote for a John McCain-type Republican (in *Illinois*) and let a liberal Democrat remain as governor, spend the state further into bankruptcy and sign a redistricting bill that would make it impossible for the GOP to win more than 1/3 of seats in either house of the state legislature or more than 1/4 of seats to Congress?
I want Brady to win, but if Dillard actually got more votes I’m not going to give the car keys to the Democrats (although I would move to institute run-offs in primaries in which no one got 50%+1, or 40%+1 if that’s more palatable; heck, they should do it even if this time the conservative won by a plurality). I also think that it’s unreasonable to tell a candidate that worked for months towards an election that would be the fulfillment of decades in public service to concede a race in which he’s behind by less than 500 votes without at least calling for a recanvassing to make sure that there wasn’t a mathematical error that mistakenly put him behind (remember when Gov. Riley first won in AL that he initially appeared to have lost because there was a transcription error in the vote total out of Baldwin County?).
If the combine steals it for him I’d have a major problem with that. There’s nothing I hate more than when democrats steal elections. I don’t normally have attacks of conscience but I don’t know if I could vote for a combine election thief just cause he was the Republican.
It would be a battle in my mind to put that up against redistricting and my ‘strong negative feelings’ towards Pat Quinn. Under such circumstances I probably decide in November whist looking at the ballot.
Thankfully it doesn’t look like they will steal it. But with that talk of “Dillard’s ‘own numbers’ showing a closer vote count”........
Jim Edgar thinks Brady’s margin will hold up.
Fideist, I get what you are saying about pragmatism but I don’t think for example Dillard traded his vote for a sales tax increase to bailout the RTA/CTA for some rat’s vote on a pro-life bill. He was just plain in favor of it. DuPage Chairman Bob Schillstrom was in favor of it. Dan Cronin who will be the new DuPage County Chairman unfortunately voted for it too. The rats won’t ever cut spending so they voted for the tax hike. That kind of “pragmatism” is why we have higher taxes. We gotta just say no or taxes will always go up and the obscene spending will never ever ever go down. They need to be forced to cut it. That’s why a flat “hell no” to any tax increase (some “swaps” are ok with me, and I don’t give a crap about cigarette taxes but would be reluctant to raise even them) is my number 1 issue. All 4 levels of government I live under have more than enough revenue. Let them get rid of the ghost payrolling before they dare even think about a tax hike.
I missed the part of your post about the differing numbers. Yes all legal votes should counted properly.
It’s just my inking that it’s just BS, Dillard saying there are more votes in his own favor. He is a combiner. It suddenly switches to Dillard I’d plum have trouble believing it was legit.
I wouldn’t want Brady to concede if he was down by the same margin. I have to plead guilty on hypocrisy here. ;D But then again Brady (imo at least) isn’t a combiner so it’s not likely there would chicanery on his behalf.