[BillyBoy]

>> Dukakis still wouldn’t have been elected president of course. But Illinois itself was pretty close, 2% race, only 95K votes, JaBba’s butt crack could hold twice as many ballots. <<

True, with the extra ballots they "find" these days, they could probably easily add enough votes to give Illinois' 1988 electoral votes to Dukakis.

Of course, at the time, I believe George H.W. Bush won DuPage in a landslide. It's one of the counties that put him over the top statewide.

[Impy]

Bush 1988 got 69% in DuPage, unimaginable today. You knew something was rotten in 2004 when Bush Jr’s vote share went DOWN from 2000.