Do you think that Treasurer Rutherford will run for governor, in 2014? I think that he’ll run, since he probably thinks that he’s the most electable Republican, in Illinois. The last two republican govenrors of Illinois (Jim Edgar and George Ryan) held statewide offices, when they were elected governor. Our state government has two Republcians, who won, statewide, Rutherford and Topinka. In Nov. 2014, she’ll be 71, so she’ll probably retire.
I think he will run, he’d probably be the frontrunner for the nomination. Unless Lisa Madigan runs and scares him off with her “popularity”.
BTW I’ve complied a list of the Wards with the best Republican performance. They were the 12 best wards for Topinka/Rutherford/Kirk/Brady though not in the same order for all 4.
I’ll list them with the %s for Topinka and Rutherford.
41 64.43% 56.04%
42 51.99% 45.94%
45 51.05% 41.72%
23 50.87% 39.43%
43 49.40%(won) 43.90%
38 48.18% (won) 38.38%
36 47.84%(won) 39.75%
19 46.06% 36.64%
39 43.90% 35.25%
32 43.09% 38.63%
50 44.03% 34.82%
44 42.43% 35.13%
http://data.cmap.illinois.gov/chicagoareahousing.org/Images/WardMapChicago1.jpg
Didn’t have candidates in most of them.
If Tom Caravette (in runoff in the 38th) is a Republican too (can’t find any info and he wasn’t mentioned in an article with Gavin and Garrdio) then we could get 3 on the NW side instead of 2.
