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.
I live in Illinois and do not like Obama, but that kind of comment goes way beyond the pale.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Nice Freudian slip in your title!
STILL, Keyes does better than any other Republican would do.
Yes, I am very ashamed.
Vegas odds are 29%, with a 3 point spread for $50. Not bad for a days work.
Oh yeah - let's put a RINO in instead of a REAL conservative! Or better yet - let a communist just take it all without a fight.
Will you roll over when you are living in the Estado de Aztlan also?
I hope Keyes wins. The republican party really needs to get with the program.
Keyes is not electable. He screams from the podium and he doesn't even live in the state.
The race is ridiculous.
In the end, Keyes will receive about 35% of the vote.
"So you are saying that tax cuts, abortion, school choice, are national issues and should not be discussed in a local or state election."
No, I'm saying Dr Keyes should find out which of those issues resonate with the voters of Illinois & then campaign on them. Seems pretty basic to me. Maybe Illinois has more ag issues than Maryland - just might be.
Gotta start somewhere, I guess. I'm skeptical about Keyes, but two days after he announces, before he gets to make any appearances or do any campaigning, it's definitely way too early to judge.
The Illinois GOP had a perfectly fine candidate, Jim Oberweiss, who finished second to Ryan in the primary. Oberweiss was blackballed by the inept/corrupt GOP party apparatus of George Ryan, who thought his anti-immigration message would hurt their delusions of Hispanic appeal.
Tho I didn't support Oberweiss in the primary (I'm anti-anti-immigration) I could se he was a serious candidate, with a serious message, and serious money. By nominating Keyes, the state GOP -- especially "leader" Judy Barr Topinka -- come off as amateur, stupid, inept. This is pretty much the nail in the state GOP coffin.
he screams from the podium and doesn't even live in the state, you say?
and Hillary Clinton?
why rule out Keyes, when the opposition has no such standards for the criteria you mention.
it turns out that this barack gentleman is a gift from "candidate heaven". I'm not sure anyone can beat him; this is the same state that elected carol mosely braun, for heaven's sake, and she barely escaped indictment after her whirlwind tour of washington DC.
You don't like Obama so you call him Osama, the murderer of thousands of people.
You aren't even clever enough to come up with a name like O'Bummer or O'Blaba or something. Show us how smart you think you are and come up with something better than that sophomoric title on your post.
Uh, IH, Mr. Oberweiss, gave a hearty endorsement for Alan Keyes yestrday.
So what? Barack Obama is a ultraleftist who believes in drive thru abortions. To me he is the Osama of unborn babies who don't have a chance against his liberal highfaluting ideas.
Why? Keyes is only well known to political junkies. Most people don't even know who he is. It would be tough for Reagan himself to beat Obama with this headstart. At least Keyes states the conservative view with passion. I think he'll win some folks to our side even in a big loss.
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