Illinois GOP picks Alan Keyes to run against Obama!

illinoisleader.com ^ | August 4, 2004

[tame]

It's official! Yahoo!

[John Lenin]

This election is about purging the left-wing radicals from the RAT party. The freak parade will be history so Hitlery doesn't have to deal with them .

[outlawcam]

Ah I see. Thanks. Did someone else attack him that I didn't see?

[EternalVigilance]

Keyes has very little charisma or appeal to voters. He will lose.

ROFL...

Give my regards to Obama.

[deport]

Illinois GOP Asks Keyes to Run for Senate

31 minutes ago

By MAURA KELLY LANNAN, Associated Press Writer

CHICAGO - Illinois Republican leaders asked Alan Keyes (news - web sites), an East Coast conservative who says out-of-state candidates aren't a good idea on principle, to be their U.S. Senate candidate Wednesday. But like a string of previous possiblities, Keyes said he needed a few days to think about it before deciding.

[LandOfLincolnGOP]

Look, the GOP cannot lose this seat to a Democrat. The stakes are too high.

Obviously the national party disagrees with you, otherwise they would have committed serious money to Illinois and we wouldn't be in this mess.

[Torie]

Oh, I had assumed Keyes had accepted. I suspect he will decline. Where will he get funding? This whole thread is a waste of time.

[Bogey78O]

You mean Keyes?

[nopardons]

Ill. and Chicago in particular,has a long and proud history of having prominent GOP blacks.Yes,their numbers have dwindled,however,everyone there knows this history.

In 1960,Jewel Stradford Lafontant seconded the nomination of Richard Nixon at the GOP Convention.THAT'S HOW IMPORTANT BLACK CHICAGO REPUBLICANS USED TO BE!

Keyes won't win over any blacks in Ill. and WILL turn off some white Republicans/Conservatives.This isn't something I wish for,but it is true.

[FITZ]

Obama is from Hawaii?

[PGalt]

OUTSTANDING! GO Alan GO!

[pgkdan]

If nothing else Dr. Keyes will keep it interesting!

[deport]

Illinois GOP asks Alan Keyes to be Senate candidate; he wants time
MAURA KELLY LANNAN

Associated Press

CHICAGO - > Illinois Republican leaders asked Alan Keyes, an East Coast conservative who says out-of-state candidates aren't a good idea on principle, to be their U.S. Senate candidate Wednesday. But like a string of previous possibilities, Keyes said he needed a few days to think about it before deciding.

Keyes told a news conference Wednesday night that he would make an announcement by Sunday.

"If I do step forward to accept this challenge, I will be laying it all on the line," he said.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

Quite possibly right.

[AuH2ORepublican]

I found this on the Web:

"When election day came, the total popular vote for those pledged to Lincoln was larger than those for Douglas. The distribution of seats in the legislature, however, had not changed with the changed distribution of population; hence there were more electoral votes for Douglas, and he won the election."

http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/ihy980238.html

Basically, the "he won the popular vote" claim is based on the fact that Republican candidates to the state legislature received more votes in the aggreggate than Democrat candidates to the state legislature. However, since more Democrats were elected to the state legislature, Douglas was elected to the U.S. Senate. The article explains that the state legislative seats were not properly apportioned (Republican legislative districts had grown quicker than Democrat districts throughout the decade of the 1850s). Of course, even if all of the districts had the same population, some districts could have many more voters than others. And even if every district had the same number of voters, if the Democrats won a lot of close races and the Republicans won landslides, it would result in more Democrats than Republicans being elected in spite of the Republican candidates receiving more votes in the aggreggate. But in any event, the fact remains that there really wasn't a popular election of the U.S. Senator from Illinois in 1858, and thus it should not be counted as either an electoral victory or defeat for Abraham Lincoln.

So no, Lincoln did not lose as many elections as Alan Keyes. But that does not mean that Alan Keyes wouldn't make a terrific Senator and would make a far better candidate than anyone else willing to run for the U.S. Senate from Illinois.

[Howlin]

Dont you think hillary winning in NY changes the standard for this sort of thing?

What do you mean by that?

Do you mean that Hillary's running in New York means that what Alan Keyes said about Hillary running in New York doesn't matter?

[an amused spectator]

So where's your source for the quote, for the second time?

[PattonReincarnated]

I'm a Georgian so I don't get a vote.

That never stopped Rats from outside IL from voting in IL. Perhaps you could take a vacation in Chicago in early vacation and do what everyone else does, several times over.

[deport]

Keyes told a news conference Wednesday night that he would make an announcement by Sunday.

[scoastie]

DITTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!