Really? The IL GOP is going to come back with him ?
I understand Murphy’s fundraising was subpar, but he was pretty much the only guy I saw as a serious threat given the screwed up nature of the Illinois GOP.
McKenna has serious base problems and isn’t particularly well liked in the media. Schillerstrom is a baby killer (I’m not making fun of him with that statement). Brady is, well Brady. Dillard did a commercial for Obama and has many base problems and he is the Foghorn. Andrzejewski (the z is killing me) has virtually no political base and no political experience. Finally, every Democrats’ favorite candidate, Dan Proft who has never met a situation he couldn’t blow up to make worse.
Murphy has a sort of calm charm to him that makes him safe to swing voters and is conservative enough without too much bipartisanship to balance the demographics of the state with Democratic problems–and of course, he’s not running for Governor anymore.
Excellent.