2004

Illinois Presidential Poll

Post-Dispatch Poll

Kerry 53%
Bush 41%
Undecided 6%

The Research 2000 Illinois Poll was conducted from October 21 through October 23, 2004. A total of 800 likely voters who vote regularly in state elections were interviewed statewide by telephone.

Those interviewed were selected by the random variation of the last four digits of telephone numbers. A cross-section of exchanges was utilized in order to ensure an accurate reflection of the state. Quotas were assigned to reflect the voter registration of distribution by county.

The margin for error, according to standards customarily used by statisticians, is no more than plus or minus 3.5% percentage points. This means that there is a 95 percent probability that the ?true? figure would fall within that range if the entire population were sampled. The margin for error is higher for any subgroup, such as for gender or party affiliation.

Post-Dispatch Senate Poll

Post-Dispatch shows a 42 point spread.

Obama 67%
Keyes 25%
Undecided 8%

The Research 2000 Illinois Poll was conducted from October 21 through October 23, 2004. A total of 800 likely voters who vote regularly in state elections were interviewed statewide by telephone.

Those interviewed were selected by the random variation of the last four digits of telephone numbers. A cross-section of exchanges was utilized in order to ensure an accurate reflection of the state. Quotas were assigned to reflect the voter registration of distribution by county.

The margin for error, according to standards customarily used by statisticians, is no more than plus or minus 3.5% percentage points. This means that there is a 95 percent probability that the ?true? figure would fall within that range if the entire population were sampled. The margin for error is higher for any subgroup, such as for gender or party affiliation.

The only good news for Alan is that he has 62% of Republican voters in the poll which is the first time I’ve seen him above 50% with his own party. And it shows him ahead in the Collar Counties, though I’m not buying that quite yet.

That was a performance

I’m still laughing. In fact, I can’t stop. I’m going to bed and will catch up on the ‘debate’ and thank yous to those who donated.

But thank you! Through this site, over $2500 was raised to help the DCCC. With the Dems having a nine point advantage in the generic ballot, we will hopefully see a wave coming for Tuesday.

Put Up or Shut Up


Pulling out the big guns–I’ve added a new picture of the girls because I hear it is pulling at heartstrings
. How can you resist. Let’s shoot for at least $200 more before 7 PM (let’s face it my readers will be watching the debate).

Liberal Oasis and I have issued our final fundraising pleas for the Majority Makers contest put on by the DCCC.

For the last few months, I’ve tried to cover the three race in Illinois in some detail and I hope I have been at least a central place to find information. But today is one week out and it’s now or never. Currently, the Republicans are protecting a corrupt Majority Leader in the House of Representatives:

Tom DeLay, whom Roy Blunt serves under and presumably so will Matt given DeLay’s forays into state politics, has been admonished for three different actions including
1) “raising concerns of “using governmental resources for a political undertaking” for asking the Federal Aviation Administration to track the missing Texas House Democrats in May of 2003″

2) “creating the “appearance of impropriety under House standards of conduct” for holding an energy interest fundraiser while crucial energy legislation was pending before a congressional conference committee”

3) “. Last week featured another letter of “admonition” for the Bug Man from the House ethics committee, following close behind an earlier one in response to his strong-arming the Medicare vote last November”

But deferred is the juciest bit to come:

The committee deferred action on the most serious charge ? that the Sugar Land Republican had used the Texans for a Republican Majority PAC to “‘funnel’ corporate funds to Texas state campaigns in 2002” in violation of Texas law ? pending the outcome of the ongoing TRMPAC criminal investigation in Travis County. There was news this week on that front as well, as the TRMPAC players Jim Ellis, John Colyandro, and Warren RoBold took their first perp walk in an Austin courtroom, amidst more published reports that when they were working campaign donors, the group might as well have been called “TOMPAC.” And there is also the little matter of a congressional (and potentially criminal) investigation of DeLay associates Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon, who apparently traded on their connections with the majority leader to scam six Indian tribes (including the El Paso Tiguas) to the tune of $66 million.

To make matters worse, DeLay is claiming he was exhonerated and threatened a Republican on the Ethics Committee.

Remember to donate to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to ensure that Tom DeLay won’t be Majority Leader again. So far, I’ve raised $2275 from readers and friends. Donate $25 or what you can whether it be $10 or more. Contest ends at 8 PM Central Time.

Ginny Schrader Walks Out!

Sweet

Ginny Schrader, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House seat from Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District, left a debate with Republican Mike Fitzpatrick, saying she was angry over a GOP mailer that criticized her screening of a controversial film at a fund-raiser.
Sponsored by the National Republican Congressional Committee and sent out Saturday, the mailer criticized Schrader’s decision in July to screen Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which is sharply critical of President Bush and the war in Iraq.

The mailing, headlined “Ginny Schrader: The Hate America crowd has found their candidate,” claims Hezbollah, a group of Lebanon-based guerillas identified by the United States and Israel as terrorists, has offered to distribute Moore’s film.

“Let me assure you, I don’t hate America,” Schrader said in her opening remarks Monday. “This mentions Hezbollah. Half my family is Jewish. This is totally unacceptable.”

She also asked Fitzpatrick to apologize. Fitzpatrick, who sat stoically next to the standing Schrader, did not respond.

She’s on the left hand side!

Holy Unhinged Batman

Jill Stanek was off her rocker last week, but this week, she’s in need of some professional help.

Almost 32 years ago these gods decreed themselves the right to abort the very young people they now demand pay for their Alaskan cruises and bingo games, if they somehow managed to survive. Incredible.

If I were a person born after January 22, 1973, I would say, ?Let them eat dog food.?

As more and more baby boomers reach retirement age, they will continue to reap what they have sown. They have already suctioned, dismembered, and decapitated their very own children, and by so doing decimated their own bodies, minds, and souls.

Now, another of their pitiful harvests will be the lack of young workers paying into the Social Security system. Approximately one-third of them have been aborted.

And it?s not just aborted children who will never pay Social Security. Some of their children would now be nearing entry-level work age, but they have been offed as well.

Abortion just doesn?t kill children; it kills family trees.

It gets better

My solution to alleviate the crisis is to add a couple questions to Social Security retirement registration forms.

The first would be, ?Are you pro-choice??

Applicants answering yes would have their SS benefits reduced by a sliding scale that multiplied the number of years they condoned abortion by the number of children aborted during those years.

The second question would be, ?Have you ever had an abortion?? for women, and ?Have you ever coerced your partner to abort or stood by silently as she made that ?choice??? for men.

Applicants answering yes to that question would have their SS benefits reduced by a sliding scale that multiplied the number of their abortions by the number of years ago they aborted.

But pro-choice seniors face more than financial woes. There is now also a critical shortage of health care workers, because they, too, been aborted.

Cegelis Debate Watching Parties

They’ll be watching the debate at these events.

Monday, November 1, at 7:00 PM, at the Bloomindale Public Library, 101 Fairfield Lane, Bloomingdale (just east of Bloomindale Road, about a mile south of Lake Street).

Thursday, October 28th from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm at 900 North Franklin Street, Suite 401, Chicago, IL 60610.

When you enter the building, take the elevator to the 5th floor and proceed to the atrium. Free parking in a lot directly behind the building facing Orleans St. For further information call (847) 797-8317 or the host (Andrew Gerhardt) at (630) 212-8475.