Thank you. Yes, in IL, you have to be willing to play hardball, it’s an unforgiving state. Not mentioned in my piece is that the Green Party of IL has done exceptionally well as of late because they get a lot of disgruntled voters sick of the corruption-as-usual practices of both parties. Blago didn’t even win 50% of the vote in 2006, Judy Baar Topinka, the GOP (Combiner) nominee didn’t even get to 40%. The Greenie got over 10%. It’s expected this time that LeAlan Jones, the Green candidate for the Senate, will probably break double-digits. If Kirk wins, it will be because Jones deprives Alexi of his needed votes of the Democrat/Left (which is why we need Stufflebeam to also get to 10% or higher).
As for a Schumer-Durbin race, that depends on a few things. First of all, Durbin’s health (and we’ve already seen that the Democrats are never honest about how bad off some of their members are — the example of South Dakota’s Tim Johnson comes to mind). Secondly, the Democrats are usually smart enough to put up workhorses and not showhorses in leadership. Schumer is way too much a showhorse, and that can work against him in the caucus. The last time a showhorse made it to the Dem Senate leadership was Ted Kennedy, when he made it to Majority Whip in 1969. He lasted all of two years before he was outhustled by Robert Byrd, and that ended Kennedy’s attempts to rise up the leader ladder.
Thanks for the additional info....if you post more on the Ill senate race...kindly ping me..indeed..you should blog it here on FR