Where Do Illinois Republicans Go From Here?

WTTW ^ | November 14, 2018 | Nicole Cardos

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Illinois has long been a blue state, mainly because of the way Chicagoans lean. But if state Republicans had hopes of gaining, or even maintaining ground last Tuesday, their hopes were quickly quashed. Democrats ousted Republicans in the race for governor and in two key congressional districts, and the General Assembly locked in Democratic supermajorities in both houses.

So where do Republicans in Illinois stand today, and what’s to come?

[Oscar in Batangas]

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Where Do Illinois Republicans Go From Here?
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I’d ask them move to Colorado or maybe Arizona, and get things back into the red again. It might be a two-fer if it can lose Illinois some electoral vote clout in the process

[qam1]

One thing our founding fathers did screw up. They make it hard to break away from the states. It’s hard, but the only thing to do is have Southern Illinois break away from Chicago and burbs. Hell Wisconsin and Induana should jettison Milwaukee and Gary to the nrw Chicago state.

[Stosh]

Anybody who works in Chicago (and a lot of people who work in the burbs) can easily commute from Wisconsin or Indiana.

With FatBoy as governor and a boatload of Madigan minions in Springfield the game plan will be to bleed the productive to placate the leaches, who will remain a reliable voting bloc. The productive have already started to leave, and the new political reality will only exacerbate that trend (If I’m not mistaken, Illinois had the largest state population loss in the country last year).

As the productive leave, the financial crisis accelerates, especially as public sector workers (including lots of teachers) start to cash in the pensions their votes have been bought with over the past couple of decades. That increases the shortfall, which leads to higher taxes, which leads to more exodus of the tax-paying class.

This weekend I learned the German word “teufelkreis” - the devil’s circle - that’s the German term for a vicious cycle. When it comes to economics, the donkeycrats don’t understand the term in any language - but that’s where Illinois is headed. How the teufelkreis is resolved is anybody’s guess, but my expectation is that bankruptcy is the best Illinoisans can hope for. And if you live in any of the other 49 states, you need to make it clear you won’t stand for having the feds bail Illinois out of that coming financial fiasco.

[AFreeBird]

Um, no. Don’t need any RINOs here. Don’t need any libtards here either, but we got them.

It’s bad enough this state went for Bathhouse Barry. That stain we may never recover from.

Okay. Maybe I’m being too harsh. But after living for so many years under libtard “rule”, one has to wonder about Illini Republicans.

No offense.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Illinois has long been a blue state, mainly because of the way Chicagoans lean.

Illinois 2016 presidential election map.

Illinois is a state riddled by blue cancer. Statewide, I don't know where Illinois Republicans go except into oblivion. Chicago and the collar counties dominate the state. The Chicago suburbs have been getting more blue. The General Assembly is hopelessly gerrymandered in favor of Democrats. There have been too many years of Combine RINOs running the party. Then, prominent GOP politicians, including the soon-to-be former governor, run like scared rabbits at the mere mention of the name of Donald Trump, which is a loser's strategy. Maybe now that the Democrats run the entire show people will make them own the disaster that they have made Illinois -- and that might be some hope for the GOP way down the line-- but I'm not going to hold my breath. It's too bad the way things have turned out, since the sh*tkickers in the red areas (I used to be one of them) deserve much, much better.

[txrefugee]

They go broke.

[foreverfree]

Bump

[foreverfree]

Bump

[mosesdapoet]

Show the 1980 Electoral map

[ronnie raygun]

Where do the republicans in NY and jersey go? Get out your tin cup and shopping cart

[Deplorable American1776]

The RINO leadership in the states’ Republican Party is screwing up the election...if Trump came and campaign for you, you won, if you ran away you lost. I think the Libertarian candidate dropped out to late...for Rosendale.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I couldn't find a county-by-county map for 1980, but Reagan won 49% to 41% for Carter and 7% for Anderson. Here's the 1984 map, Reagan 56% to Mondale 43%:

[Jim Noble]

They will eventually become Republican

The Republican party won't exist long enough for them to become Republican.

[sailor76]

Illinois is pretty good
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FOID cards
Crazy high property taxes
Insane crime rates
Overrun with illegals
Crazy high sales taxes

I know I'm talking mostly about Cook & DuPage counties, but overall IL is one of the worst places in the country.

[backwoods-engineer]

Do what I did: LEAVE and go to a place with more freedom, and shake the dust off your feet.

[Jacquerie]

Thank scotus' 1964 Reynolds v. Sims decision that ruled that unlike in the election of the United States Senate, in the election of any chamber of a state legislature the electoral districts must be roughly equal in population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._Sims