Posted on 08/09/2004 5:28:52 PM PDT by RWR8189
CHICAGO (CBS 2) Illinois' senate race is heating up with both Democrat Barack Obama and new Republican candidate Alan Keyes in town pressing the flesh and warming up to voters.
The Republican candidate in this race may just be getting started, but according to an exclusive new CBS 2/Newsradio 780 poll, Keyes has a long way to go. 67 percent of Illinois voters prefer Democrat Obama; 28 percent would choose Keyes.
Keyes and his supporters were feeling the heat of the August sun as he announced for U.S. Senate at a crowded rally in Arlington Heights. Our exclusive voter opinion survey shows Obama generating another kind of heat.
Obama's lead in our CBS 2/Newsradio 780 Survey was most pronounced among women voters, 74 percent to 21percent for Keyes. Among men, it was 59 percent to 36 percent.
There was no surprise in strongly Democratic Chicago: 79 percent for Obama, 16 percent for Keyes.
But in the heavily Republican collar counties, it was Obama with 62 percent, Keyes with 34 percent. . Even downstate, 56 percent of those polled preferred Obama to 38 percent for Keyes. The results were almost the same in rural areas: 57 percent to 39 percent.
Virtually every Democrat we talked to favored Obama. Among independent voters, 64 percent chose Obama, 30 percent chose Keyes. Even among Republicans, 27 percent defected to Obama, 67 percent chose Keyes.
White voters went 62 percent to 32 percent for Obama; black voters by a margin of 89 percent to 10 percent.
The poll was conducted by Survey USA this past Friday and Saturday. It is accurate to within plus or minus four percentage points.
Analogy, huh? I wonder how many people in Illinois figured that out?
From the heart, and all that.
I think we can count on that this time, Amelia. For the most part, it's really in the hands of the Lord.
I think I know how he must feel, though. It's like all the chips are on the table this time - right in front of him.
Yeah, and what is Judy going to do with that nomination ? She doesn't seriously think she'll win, does she ?
That goes back to his position on income taxes, he's explained that income taxes are a form of slavery since your labor is confiscated for the benefit of other --- which is what slavery is. Giving us back a little that should have already been ours --- the profits of our own labor is what he was referring to.
Maybe you or other residents from Illinois can start putting links out on Obamas voting record such as his vote on in-state tuition for illegal aliens hiding out in Illinois or if he had any input on the lawsuit against gun manufactures pushed by Mayor Daily. Or maybe he made a speech concerning gay marriage.
Lets shine the light on Barack Obama. We already know about Alan Keyes.
Oh, man! Right in FRONT of him?
And he's got all those unpaid campaign bills from last time....
Imagine he had to get with his handlers for a briefing on how to handle Keyes, who is direct and is going straight to federal issues, not just state issues. Seeing Keyes for the first time was a real treat. As a radio talk show host, he's got what it takes to go straight for the jugular. This is going to be fun for conservatives, but not for the Democrat's golden boy Obama.
And there you have it.
Keyes is going to whack him off his rat pedestal. It'll be fun to watch because it's not often a democrat gets pulverized by someone with a brain.
Blag will probably take two terms (the first 'Rat since the paragon of ethics Otto Kerner to do so). He can count on the continuing meltdown of the state GOP. What a shame. I love Alan Keyes, dearly (I voted for him in the '00 Prez primary), but he probably shouldn't have allowed himself to get dragged into the IL mess.
You - hoo!
Where are you?
I wonder have he feels about a citizens right to choose whether to "carry" or not?
(As in Right-to-Carry)
Thanks for the link.
Reagan is from IL. Obama might as well go home if Reagan was running.
For those who may not have read my post on this subject on other threads, I would like to repeat:
"All Free Republic lovers of liberty should be thrilled when an articulate person steeped in an understanding of America's Constitutional republic and the philosophy expressed in the Declaration of Independence gets a chance to be heard by hundreds of thousands of people.
"Let's not quibble about the win/lose question right now. Hadn't the election already been virtually conceded to Obama when Ryan dropped out? If so, let's just be glad that a controversial, outspoken advocate for liberty has a chance to be heard. Who knows, some future young leader may be influenced by the reasoned arguments Keyes will use to rebut the Liberal Left politics of the Democrats.
"Every voice for the Founders' philosophy is needed right now. Keyes, by education and by talent and devotion to the Constitution, needs to be heard. Let him have the pulpit! Give him the vote. Fresh air and sunshine are needed--and the young rising star of the Liberal Left may learn some new debating skills, and a thing or two about America's founding philosophy too."
"Alan Keyes is a 21st Century man who holds deeply to the philosophy of Washington, the Adamses, Madison, Jefferson, and all the other geniuses who made the 'miracle of America' come into being. Not only does his Harvard education in constitutional government qualify him for expounding on that philosophy, but he has a Creator-endowed intellect and ability to articulate principles that few others possess. More power to the Illinois GOP for its courage in putting him opposite Obama in the debate arena!!"
In an America where the Radical Left has taken over the Democratic Party, where the so-called "public schools" have all but eradicated the ideas essential to liberty (the philosophy underlying the Declaration of Independence). . .
wherever there is a person who can express the plain common sense ideas of the Founders and debate those ideas with a leading star of that Radical Left, WE'D BETTER SAY, "HAVE AT IT." Nothing less than our liberty and the liberty of future generations is at stake.
The Keyes message may resonate with some present or future young person who will bother to examine the validity of his statements and learn about the real philosophy of our constitutional republic, not the revised version being perpetrated by the Liberal Left Wing of the Democratic Party.
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