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You don't remember the race then because the IL GOP Combine wanted a black candidate and it came down to Keyes who wasn't from IL and a black woman that I can't remember but she was a nobody.

I am sure that someone in this state would have run, why does Dick Durbin always have an opponent even though he is a shoe in? I don't recall any statewide elections that have been unopposed.

The combine wanted Obama as Senator.

Ditka was considered the candidate but pulled out because the Obama / Combine team had some vicious dirt on him so he vanished without a trace.

They let Jack Ryan win knowing they had dirt on him. They held the dirt until the summer when it would be impossible to have a special election.

So the decision on a candidate was left to the IL GOP / Combine. And they chose Alan Keyes, a person that had probably 5% name recognition in Illinois.

I respect Alan Keyes, I am with him on the issues but he was the worst candidate I've ever seen the repubs put up in this state.

I've worked politics in this state, I know how things work here. This was a complete set up by the combine to literally hand Obama the Senate seat.

It began by the IL GOP viciously attacking Senator Fitzgerald to the point where he retired because it was impacting his family.

Peter Fitzgerald would have trounced Obama! He was well liked in this state, but the Combine didn't like him because he was a conservative so they threw him under the bus and decided Obama was the man to go with.

The three other people I pinged can verify this to you. They are IL Political experts.