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Posted on 11/26/2013 3:56:10 PM PST by Perdogg
Not oberweis again.
Well don’t know much about illinois politics but shouldn’t durbin be much higher?
i wonder if it’s even getting to him?
ping
The people of Illinois deserve whatever happens to them.
Dick Durbin before he dicks you.
...too late...
A potted plant could get that high against Dick.
I wonder what the numbers would be if Chicago was not part of the equation? I’ve read that much of Illinois is Purple to Pale Red, but Chicago/Cook County just put the state out of reach for most Republicans.
(Illini FReepers, free feel to chime in and/or correct me if I err here).
Dick Dirtbin is about the speed of the liberal parts of that state.
They count Chitcato voters twice.
Check out Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections for comprehensive results analysis.
Obama "won" Cook County (Chitcago) by about a million votes, 73.9%, but only won the state of Illinois by 884,000 votes.
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If the Illinois GOP wasn’t a disaster, Durbin would be on the ropes. 51%?
Willard would’ve won in IL were Cook County removed in 2012:
1,639,674 - Willard
1,530,975 - Zero
Ditka said he regrets not running against Obama. He knows now that we wouldn’t have a communist President if he would have entered the Senate race. Maybe he would like to redeem himself.
Durbin should just sleep until election night and wake up in time for the acceptance speech. There are many Republicans like that too. I sorta wish they all had to fight. Maybe they would do their job if they had to fight for their position every time.
That’s only part of it. Had Ditka won, it would’ve merely eliminated an opponent for Hillary in 2008 and we’d have had her Marxist-Totalitarian evil instead.
The GOP - or should I say Tea Party - had some success in 2010.
Mark Kirk, a Republican, was elected to the U.S. Senate.
Curiously, Hispanics and Blacks in Cook County have almost equal numbers, both of them just shy of 25%.
Perhaps some day the invisible Conservative Hispanics we always hear about will show up at the polls and help elect some Republicans in Illinois.
By the way, for those readers who actually think Hispanics are Conservative, please consider this:
Albuquerque, New Mexico just voted down a ban on late term abortions, 55%-45%.
47% of the people who live in Albuquerque are Hispanic.
Not one Hispanic organization in the state publicly supported the ban.
(Illini FReepers, free feel to chime in and/or correct me if I err here).
The rule of thumb is that an "R" needs to get 25% in the city of Chicago and 37% overall in Cook County in order to have a chance at statewide victory. It's not been that uncommon until lately.
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