Maybe IF we made the effort to control Cook County/Chicago vote fraud, cemetery vote, ineligible vote, votes by the non-existent, "motor voter fraud."etc., actually sent volunteer campaign workers into ethnic neighborhoods in Chicago, HIGHLIGHTED instead of ignoring social issues: the murder of the unborn, the murder of those already born via gun control, "gay" everything, ignored instead of obsessing on turgid arguments on state budgets and the privileges of the comfortable, emphasized the absolutely rotten government schools, the shift of tax burdens to the working class, resistance to Obozo style "community organizing," the growth of the welfare class, manufacture and deployment of military hardware, the overwhelming pension abuse by public sector workers' unions in this and many other states (Connecticut, California, New York for example), and had a disciplined and CONSERVATIVE and PRINCIPLED GOP party leadership in Illinois, we would have little trouble electing a "100% conservative" US Senator. Peter Fitzgerald was close and I don't think his handful of envirowhacko heresies were what elected him over Carol Mostly Fraud. Imagine if he had been charismatic as well!
To elect a conservative requires a CONSERVATIVE GOP in all but the rarest circumstances and the NOMINATION of conservative candidates. That is where the failure lies in Illinois. The Machine controls BOTH parties and the party rules and state laws allow the Machine to do so.
A;so, Illinois conservatives are politically depressed and lack a sense of righteous outrage. 55% is a woeful excuse for a goal.
Whom did you support in the 2010 U.S. Senate primary? I voted for Don Lowery. Kirk was my congressman, and I’ve never voted for him. If I thought that the race would be close, I would have voted for him. In Oct. 2010, I thought that his race wouldn’t be close, so I voted for Mike Labno, the Libertarian.