Just an aside, the "Deadbeat Dad" stuff was a liberal campaign smear against Walsh when he was in a child custody battle. He's since been cleared of all charges and his ex-wife actually apologized for the allegations, but of course the liberal media gave almost zero coverage to the "Walsh cleared" story so the Dems are hoping people still think the "deadbeat dad" BS was true.
What's shocking to me is the Dems can make Walsh and Dold's district much more RAT, but when they expand all the RAT districts to include vast portions of GOP turf, the district overall is still solid RAT. I mean they got Jesse Jackson Jr. all the way out in Kankakee county, and 2 out of 3 counties in his new district are staunchly AGAINST him and vote Republican, but he STILL wins by over 70% district wide. My district (Bobby Rush, IL-1) is now geographically 50% Republican, but population-wise it's still heavily RAT. The south side of Chicago loses more and more people but it still can still outvote anyone else.
I didn’t use the adjective “deadbeat” to describe Walsh because his ex-wife sued him for nonpayment of child support; I called him that because he had a long history of not paying his bills, both personal and for his campaign (if you don’t pay what you owe, you’re a deadbeat in my book). But that’s neither here nor there.
Regarding IL-01, is it really “50% Republican geographically”? There are very, very few GOP precincts in Chicago.
It should not shock you that adding 55%-GOP suburbs to 80%-Dem black-majority Cook precincts in JJJ’s CD yields a 70% Dem CD. Maybe 30% of the population of the CD lives in slightly GOP precincts, and a district in which 70% of voters vote 80% Dem while 30% of voters vote 45% Dem will vote 69.5% Dem. And, besides, there are a lot of blacks in Will County, particularly in Joliet (and not just in the prison).