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Obama
Champaign News Gazette
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Sun-Times
Daily Herald
Peoria Journal-Star
Saint Louis Post-Dispatch
The Star Newspapers
UC Maroon
Hynes
Bloomington Pantagraph
Daily Southtown
Joliet Herald News
Near West Gazette (not online)
Quad-Cities Dispatch-Argus
Waukegan News Sun
Chico
Aurora Beacon News
Courier News
More as they come in.
Rauschenberger
Aurora Beacon News
Bloomington Pantagraph
Champaign News Gazette (off-line)
Courier News
Chicago Tribune
Daily Herald
Joliet Herald News
Peoria Journal Star
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The Star Newspapers
Ryan
The Democratic Party has some work to do on this, but come’on, isn’t it time to just jettison the Republicans at the national level?
Kudos to Baar Topinka for trying to knock it down in the Illinois Republican Party, but I am guessing it could be her downfall in the 2006 Gubernatorial Primary.
Madigan is blocking a statewide amendment.
At the Illinois state level traditional family groups have worked with a conservative downstate Democrat to introduce an amendment to the state constitution confirming marriage as between one woman and one man. But the legislaton has not emerged from the House Rules Committee.
According to House Speaker Michael Madigan’s (D-Chicago) spokesman Steve Brown, the issue is not a high priority to the public, and it won’t be in the General Assembly this session, either.
Now, class when it does emerge from Rules where is it going to go? A committee to nowhere is where. For the time being the key is to keep this garbage from coming up until the fight can be won.
Any rumblings out there? What will the attacks on Obama be now that he is the clear, clear frontrunner? Any other movement? Drop your say in comments, it’ll be up later in the evening.
(Another school board meeting to make up for the one people couldn’t get into last night)
A little bit late, but Rich Miller is predicting that it is about to get real ugly…what are your predictions and who is up and who is down? Finally, something to shake this one up.
Rich Miller reports:
POLLS (excerpt)* Meanwhile, there is a ton of chatter in the system right now about the Republican (US Senate) race. Brace yourselves, folks. If you thought the Dem primary was a sordid little affair, the Republicans appear to be almost ready to pull out the nukes.
Any ideas out there?
UPDATE: For the new Readers ICFST==Illinois Circular Firing Squad Team==Illinois Republican Party. This is due to the civil war currently being fought between social conservatives and the traditional power brokers. It’s good fun to watch.
Because people’s children are gay
Making me feel warm and fuzzy for Dick Mell was something I thought impossible. Don’t worry, it’ll pass.
Via Eric Zorn’s Notebook
The most recent poll is up from Survey USA.
Democrats
Obama 44%
Hull 20%
Hynes 18%
Pappas 7%
Chico 6%
Other/Undecided 5%
Data Collected
3/6/04 – 3/8/04
Geography
State of Illinois
Sample Population
776 Certain Voters
Margin of Error 3.6%
Client WBBM-TV Chicago
Republicans
Ryan 37%
Oberweis 23%
McKenna 14%
Rauschenberger 11%
Borling 4%
Other/Undecided 10%
Data Collected
3/6/04 – 3/8/04
Geography
State of Illinois
Sample Population
402 Certain Voters
Margin of Error 5.0%
Client
WBBM-TV Chicago
A couple things to notice–Survey USA is using Certain Voters which should be above Likely Voters. The formula and method to determine this is proprietary and so this is often why polls differ between outfits. The other thing is SurveyUSA uses computer automated calls and we are not yet certain what kind of bias that might introduce into the results. While their results are getting steadily better over time, we just don’t have the information to appropriately analyze how valid and reliable they are. That said, the results are in line with other polls.
What we might be able to deduce is that Hynes really needs a good ground operation because he is relatively low in the poll for certain voters and so his voters are perhaps less likely to vote. But amongst certain voters, Obama is in very good shape.
On the Republican side, Jack!’s support is clearly not as deep, but Rauschenberger does pop up. Not surprising given certain voters are more likely to be politically engaged and thus be familiar with him despite his absence from the airwaves.
I just want to welcome the significant new readership I’m noticing from the huge uptick in traffic the last week.
For those unfamiliar with me, I live in Saint Louis and have an obsession with Illinois politics. I’m a partisan Democrat, though when I did live in Illinois I voted for Republican on several occasion. That said, I love Illinois politics and that is what this site is devoted to covering.
For those wondering why I bother to endorse candidate? Because I can and I think it is fun. While I’m serious about it, I also don’t take it too seriously that a lot of people come here for my views. For one thing, most of the political junkies who make their way here made up their minds long ago. But thanks for visiting and please come back.
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