As they say, the "proof is in the pudding" ... given Pat Quinn won the Governor's race by winning only two counties outright, C(r)ook County being one (Chicago, immediate suburbs), and St. Clair County (East St. Louis) being the other, it's all the proof you need. The majority of the State's population resides in these two counties alone.
Talk about wag the dog!
But on election day, all these Quinn signs spouted up overnite at every polling place and endless DemonRAT voters I had never seen before in my life, showed up at the polls and demanded the option for "punich cards" to vote "straight Democrat" even though we did away with punch cards 8 years ago (guess these "voters" must have missed that). One black "suburban voter" (with city of Chicago car stickers) that we couldn't find in the rolls ADMITTED the last time he had voted had been for Al Gore a decade earlier. And of course, election judges don't require ID to vote. Guess which candidate carried my township? Quinn.
To add insult to injury, Mark Kirk's fan club simply dismissed it by saying "the polls were wrong" and that Brady voters should have "worked harder", even though HIS "people" never set foot in any part of Crook County he didn't already represent when the tea party and the rest of us were working like hell to GOTV for Brady throughout suburban Cook County.
I'm through with this state. F the combine and F the RINO infested GOP who supports them.
Gov. Quinn won four counties. He won partly because of the Libertarian, Lex Green. Quinn beat Brady by about 20,000 votes, and Green got about 34,000 votes. If Green didn’t run, the majority of his supporters would have voted for Brady, and Brady would have won.
St. Clair County is just not that big of a factor with a population of 270,056. East St. Louis even less, with a population of 27,006.
It's all about Chicago & Cook County, population 5,194,675 residents,which is 40.5% of all Illinois residents