You are also seeing the pubbie side of the demo-rat party taking it out on a conservative uppity black man, so it will not offend the jesse Jackson wing of the demo rat party.
if keyes were white and named ryan he would have the support of the illinois pubbie party, but not the rockefeller side of the illinois party, cause he is conservative.
So keyes has several things going wrong for him in illinois he is not named ryan, he is not a demo-rat and is black, and biggest sin of all he is conservative.
Wrong strategy, wrong time.
Republicans aren't supporting Keyes because they're racist???