Archive for March, 2006
Posted in March 23rd, 2006
Lynn Sweet offers up some advice to the Duckworth camp and all of it would be a good start Here’s what needs to happen, and it’s more than having all of the Democrats show up at Saturday’s DuPage Dems post-primary breakfast in Oakbrook Terrace. *Cegelis, even if she turns it down, needs to be asked […]
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Posted in March 23rd, 2006
He brings up some interesting ideas. Emil Jones being one–and it doesn’t risk mixing up the state ticket and might have some personal appeal to Jones. My one concern is the President Jones has done a hell of a lot better job than I think anyone thought he would when he became minority leader–perhaps better […]
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Posted in March 23rd, 2006
And 4000 fewer people showed up in the Democratic Primary in the 6th District than in 2004. 36158 votes in 2004 ~31996 votes in 2006 It’s about 20% up from 2002 (the first year of these boundaries. Even given the Barack effect for 2004, the District is still remarkably lacking in infrastructure—this isn’t a slam […]
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Posted in March 23rd, 2006
Okay, I was wrong about the whole late night thing, but I assumed that the problems were only with getting people to vote, not with collecting the votes. What is strange about the problem is that collecting everything should be even easier than ever—collecting cards is easier than collecting boxes from all of the precincts. […]
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Posted in March 22nd, 2006
Hot build a successful party Christine Cegelis vs. Democratic Party Machine By Bill Scheurer To all my friends who supported Christine Cegelis in the Illinois 6th Congressional District primary race — my heart goes out to you and your candidate. You carried out a great grassroots campaign — both, locally and nationwide. You brought out […]
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Posted in March 22nd, 2006
Randall Stufflebeam, seeking to be on the ballot for the Constitution Party of Illinois He even has an FAQ should Topinka be nominated: I could only hope and pray that the Republican Party would select Judy Baar-Topinka. With her liberal leanings, her nomination would almost assure me of a victory. However, if the poll that […]
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Posted in March 22nd, 2006
“New Parties” Must submit petitions gathered between March 28th and June 26th (Last day to file) to get on the ballot. If Meeks were to attempt a run, he’d have to gather about 25,000 signatures plus extras to avoid challenges. He can do that and do it relatively easily, but my guess is he’s willing […]
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Posted in March 22nd, 2006
Bill is being promoted by the NRCC You can disagree with Bean on many issues, but if you think David McSweeney would be an improvement, you are kidding yourself. Bean is in a 56% Bush District. You aren’t going to elect Jan Schakowsky there.
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Posted in March 22nd, 2006
The Unity Breakfast was not so unified Better than O’Malley, but not what one hopes for.
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Posted in March 22nd, 2006
Carole Pankau for Comptroller Ohhhhh….Jake. You are so going to hate me. And Congrats to Dan Hynes who will be celebrating reelection in November. Am I missing something here?
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Posted in March 22nd, 2006
Besides Conley and some random grumblings, I’m actually surprised there isn’t more bitterness at the Governor by some Democrats. On the other hand, it would appear the ICFST is in great shape and will continue it’s long tradition of looking a gift horse in the mouth. As someone commenters over at Capitol Fax might make […]
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Posted in March 22nd, 2006
The lack of organization–even with the efforts, only about 32,000 people voted in the primary—a winning race will take 140-160,000 votes. Ultimately Democrats don’t have the base that Republicans do—Roskam received 44,000 votes in DuPage alone and another 5,000 in Cook (Dems cast more ballots in Cook, but hard to say if that had something […]
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Posted in March 22nd, 2006
Posted in March 22nd, 2006
With 87% of the vote in, Shore is in second place with 14.7% of voters choosing her—that puts her up about 30,000 votes over third place and about 35,000 votes over the fourth place candidate. With about 72,000 votes to (just an approximation) that should make her election pretty safe. The dynamics are a bit […]
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Posted in March 22nd, 2006
Oberweis Supporters or Cegelis Supporters My take–Oberweis supporters. Cegelis supporters are certainly disappointed after a really great job, but ultimately, the candidate isn’t ideologically toxic like JBT is to the loudest Oberweis supporters.
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