Posted on 07/30/2014 7:41:19 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
How will President Obama feel when a Republican wins the governor’s race in his home state of Illinois?
Gov. Pat Quinn is facing an increasingly uphill battle against Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner, a new We Ask America poll shows.
Rauner is now sitting on a 14-point lead in the poll that was conducted July 28, which is up from his 10-point lead he had in a June poll. Rauner’s boost can be attributed to his economic plan, which includes a state income tax reduction. A poll showed while people don’t believe Illinois can afford this plan, a majority say it makes them more likely to vote for him.
Reboot Illinois, which was founded by hedge fund manager Anne Dias Griffin, commissioned the poll by We Ask America, an independent polling subsidiary of the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association.
Overall, if the election were held today, Rauner would pull in 47 percent of the vote, compared to Quinn’s 33 percent. Of those polled, 20 percent said they’re still undecided.
All 118 seats in the Illinois House of Representatives and about one-third of the State Senate seats will also be on the ballot this year. Democrats have a 40 to 19 seat margin in the State Senate and a 71 to 47 seat margin in the House. But a big win by Rauner could create coattails, and it appears he and his campaign are investing money in an effort to make that happen:
Crain’s Chicago Business columnist Greg Hinz:
Thanks to heavy spending by wealthy gubernatorial nominee Bruce Rauner—and disgust within the GOP that it let the governor’s mansion slip away four years ago despite the Rod Blagojevich scandal—Illinois Republicans appear to be disciplined, organized and moving to win in a way they haven’t been in decades. And the Democrats know it.
One insider tells me that a combination of the state and national parties and the Rauner campaign is prepared to spend as much as $2 million just on an absentee ballot operation—perhaps seven or eight times as much as in 2010, when Republican state Sen. Bill Brady of Bloomington lost to Gov. Pat Quinn.
Another source reports that the party has opened 20 field offices just in the collar counties. In comparison, Mr. Brady had three offices in the entire state.
Notice the momentum and bandwagon effect:
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie came to Chicago Friday and gave Republican Bruce Rauner $2.5 million.
With that the Republican Governors Association more than doubled its financial support of Rauner’s campaign for governor.
It can’t happen too soon.
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Brilliant and great timing... The Demonic spend trillions of dollars that don’t exist to hand out to the state’s overwhelming numbers of parasites, and Repukelicans ride in to what... Right the ship? BWAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! My advice, let the state stay libtard.
Awesome and surprising news to me . . first time I’d heard anything of a fighter’s chance in that once great state
So did quite a few of their recent Democrat governors.
Illinois politician; does anyone seriously believe the mob cares what party one of their politicians belongs to?
That goes without saying.
We hold the RECORD!!! Yay for us! The last THREE of our governors went to prison including Ryan, a Republican. Illinois. If I weren’t trapped here by my business which depends on Chicago clientele and a bad downturn which hurt cash flow, I’d be gone in a heartbeat.
Illinois is run by Cook County Democrats up north in league with Combine Republicans down south.
And it won’t matter who wins as they all wind up in the pen making license plates.
Four Illinois governors have been sent to prison: 3 Democrats and 1 Republican. The Democrats may add to their lead as the incumbent Quinn, who succeeded his impeached running mate Rod Blagojevich, is now under Federal investigation.
Nobody in Illinois is enthusiastic for RINO Rauner. It is simply that Quinn is that bad.
But so did the previous Democrap Guv.
Rauner may win and the GOP may retain the other constitutional offices it holds. Last time, Quinn squeaked through. He lost all downstate counties except for two in far southern Illinois. He even lost in Democratic strongholds such as St. Clair and Madison counties. His winning margin came from suburban Chicago, which Brady neglected during the campaign. The legislature is another story, since the districts are rigged for the Democrats.
You expect that from Democrats.
When pigs fly.
GOP governors successfully turned around neighboring blue states of Wisconsin and Michigan.
“So did quite a few of their recent Democrat governors.”
Illinois, where former governors make your license plates!!
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