Call It A Comeback
It doesn’t look like O’Bama will be getting more votes than all of the Republicans together. With 11,713 precincts out of 11,745 precincts reporting Obama is down by about 10,000 votes. Still a stunning result and more importantly it seems to indicate some real problems for Republicans statewide.
I have some thoughts, but what else does everyone out there think could have caused this low turnout for Republicans?
Will have to wait until tonight. Exceeding my bandwidth sort of slowed me down last night so I’ll get it up at some point tonight.
Congrats to That Collored Fella for winning the blogger contest set up by Eric Zorn.
Hull killed me. That said, given I’d have to distribute his points elsewhere, I wouldn’t have given them all to Barack. And even if I did, Bert still would have killed me.
Why was Richard Daley defending Ryan’s privacy so strongly? I can think of a dozen ways to just avoid the question. Perhaps he isn’t wanting to send him away to keep him from running in the city? Something to think about.
Okay, earlier I said Cook County Public Guardian Patrick Murphy lost. He won by nearly 10,000 votes. Errr.. I have no excuse.
I have a hard time getting upset at anyone in East Saint Louis because they are just playing the hand given to them by the St. Clair County machine. Ralph, through his sister, covers the East Saint Louis voting yesterday
Melissa Bean’s victory is covered over at the DCCC’s Blog the Stakeholder
In fact, Bean is already a hardened campaigner, having won an impressive 43% against Crane in 2002 – with limited resources! Bean’s campaign is already thriving. She has raised over $150,000 – five times the amount she raised at this point last cycle.
Not only is she a great candidate in a very winnable race (CQ has moved it into the “competative” category), but she is getting a lot of love online.
Hence why I’ll be mentioning her a lot!
As of right now, Barack Obama in a seven way race has accumulated about 4,000 more votes than all of the Republicans combined. There are about 200 precincts left to count.
Major Tip of the Hat to Jeff Trigg at Random Acts of Kindness for figuring this out.
He also points out that Hynes will pick up about 80 counties. County chairmen are good things to collect in a campaign, but votes are better.
District 150 in Peoria has renewed Edison Schools contract. I’ll have more on this later, but I figured a post would remind me.
Yo! Bill any take on this?
Like it or not, that file will be public before the first Tuesday in November. Controlling its release is far better than letting it hit on someone elses timing.
That’s the last I say about it until it hits. I figure Republicans don’t want my advice so I’m going to sit back and watch the show. Let’s maintain a low profile on the issue in comments please.
The bad news is Cook County’s Tireless Public Guardian went down to defeat in his judicial race.
In the great news category, Bill Kunkle, the man who prosecuted the DuPage 7, has won with 52 percent of the vote against a candidate heavily supported by the man who can admit no mistakes and holder of the most bitter concession in 2002, Joe Birkett.
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