Posted on 10/06/2012 2:47:45 PM PDT by dialup_pundit
When an incumbent Democratic president is virtually tied in a congressional district he carried by high double digits in 2008, and is losing in the suburbs of his hometown, there could be trouble brewing.
In August, a poll by the Joliet, Ill.-based polling firm of McKeon and Associates, found President Obama leading challenger Mitt Romney in Cook County, which includes Chicago and its suburbs, by a 12-point margin 49-37.
That would seem to be a comfortable edge, but it is significantly smaller than traditional margins needed to outweigh the more Republican downstate vote...
Now comes a new poll from WeAskAmerica that finds Obama with just a 2-point lead over Romney, 47-45, in a suburban Chicago congressional district that Obama won in 2008 by 23 points.
Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/100512-628435-polls-show-obama-could-lose-illinois.htm#ixzz28X8nPjpF
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I don’t care about Obama winning Illinois or California. But I would love to see him have to pour money in there.
The Romney strategy right now should be to have Super Pacs expand the field, move into new markets such as Philly, Pittsburgh, LA, Minneapolis, move the needle and force Obama to react.
DRAIN OBAMA DRY. I am hearing that the GOP numbers for Sept will eclipse the Obama $181 million announced earlier today.
Yes, it’s where Cheney said “bigtime” which has become one of my favorite words when talking “politics”.
Obama should not be wasting money on ads in Chicago. That is very significant intel.
My Jewish friends in Wisconsin who voted for Obama in 2008 are supporting Romney this year.
That was a different Daley; and this time, Obama fired his son (William), or at least made being Chief of Staff so unpleasant that he quit.
100% correct! Bet the family farm on it. Too many of the 47% living there.
Absent some major event, NC is now out of reach for Obama and firming for Romney. Obama has baled on most advertising and the DCCC has yanked money for endangered Blue Dogs (Kissell?) - left to fend for themselves.
The Dems have problems in NC up and down the ballot. The GOP candidate for Gov is crusing to victory (open seat w retirement of brain dead Bev Perdue).
Very admirable for your hard work and recollections.
In 1968 Nixon refused to release Lake County until Daley reported the entirety of Cook County - wasn’t going to get burned twice.
Understandably in 1968 in the midst of a see-saw election night Pat Nixon refused to believe that her husband carried Illinois. It was only when she was completely assured that the Daley machine could not and would not overtake the GOP votes in Lake County did she cry with relief and happiness.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower has written a magnificient book about her mother.
I sure love hearing about the possibility that Obama just might lose Illinois!! If Obama, Gov.Quinn, and Durbin’s back door deal to bring GITMO terrorists to Thompson Prison gets attention.....who knows!!
The citizens of Illinois should be outraged about this:
Please see here:
AND FROM TWO YEARS AGO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUQVUFBQ6NA
AND HERE IS THE FR THREAD:
I also live in DuPage County in Illinois and I have seen MANY Romney signs driving around and one or two Obozo signs. Could this mean something? Maybe.
Ping to #49 :)
Great video and commentary about the Romney event in Toledo.
This is a very new development. They are running a new 100% dishonest ad showing Romney at the debate and then cutting to NBC’s Andrea Mitchell questioning Romney’s credibility on the “$5 trillion” myth DESPITE the campaign openly acknowledging that the number is not correct and walking it back. Moreover, the authors of the study want Obama campaign references stopped ASAP.
The Chi-town machine won’t let that happen, they’ll round up enough dead voters for their boy!
“Somehow, Mayor Daley always managed to come-up with just enough votes to win every election for decades.”
But not too many votes, right? Didn’t Joe Kennedy ask JFK something like, “What? Did you think I was going to buy you a landslide?” referring to Mayor Daley, the mafia, the unions, and the convenient win.
Check out this map on how Illinois voted in 2010. The state is almost all red. The rest of the state can’t out vote Cook County. If Obama doesn’t pull as many votes as he needs from Cook, Illinois does have a shot of going for Romney.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/11/illinois_not_as_blue_as_you_th.html
“The rest of the state can’t out vote Cook County. If Obama doesn’t pull as many votes as he needs from Cook, Illinois does have a shot of going for Romney.”
Absolutely correct. As goes Cook County, as goes the State of IL. I can only speak of the people I know from Cook County personally, but none of them will vote for Obama. Hopefully my micro sample will mirror Cook County at large. I feel it in my political bones that Cook County this time around will be pro-Romney by perhaps enough to throw the state to Mitt. Got my fingers crossed.
That’s good news! I’m keeping my fingers crossed, too!!
Romney signs all over the northern suburbs of Illinois. Downstate usually goes republican, but can all this outweigh the dead vote in Rahm’s Chicago?
Why do you think Rahm left the WH to run for mayor of Chicago? No brainer!
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