Who should have run, in the 8th District? Last May, I emailed State Sen. Matt Murphy, and I asked him to run for Congress. He sent a response and said that he would consider it. If Bean wins, this year, I hope that Murphy will run against her, in 2012.
I agree with you about Bob Dold. He’ll probably win, and he’s more conservative than Kirk.
Does Murphy live in her district?
Plenty of candidates ran. Most seemed to think the best choice was Village President Maria Rodriguez.
I think Walsh will win after Bean’s obamacare vote.
And that IL-17 is a real sleeper. The rat Hare is up just 7 points and most don’t want to see him reelected.
CQ politics has the Bean seat as “safe rat” and Halvorsen in the 11th as “likely rat”. Halvorsen trails the Republican by a significant margin, she’s toast. That one is lean GOP at least and Bean’s is a tossup.
Their ratings are seriously weak. You shouldn’t even list them Interceptpoint. Either they are a democrat’s wet dream or more likely they are just lazy and stupid.
Harry Reid was trailing everyone with an R for months before they even moved him to tossup.