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One Last Illinois Presidential Poll
Rod McCulloch’s Illinois Poll reports a 10 point lead for Kerry.
The October Illinois Poll of 1200 likely Illinois voters, was conducted October 28-31, 2004. The Illinois Poll is a monthly statewide poll conducted by McCulloch Research & Polling, a Chicago-based firm. ?It appears that there will be no surprises in Presidential politics in Illinois tomorrow,? pollster Rod McCulloch said. ?Senator Kerry should win by about the same margin that Al Gore did in 2000.?
According to the poll, Senator Kerry holds a ten-point lead in Illinois, a state considered to be a ?Blue? or Kerry state from the beginning of the campaign. Former Vice President Al Gore won Illinois by a full 12% in 2000 (54-42%).
The Democratic stronghold of Chicago fronts Senator Kerry to a huge lead (76-21.8%). Suburban Cook County, formerly a reliable Republican region, also would vote for Kerry, by a margin of 58.5-38.4%, according to the poll. President Bush does hold a lead in three of the other four regions of the state, including the still solidly Republican Collar Counties (55-41), Northwest Illinois (50-44), and Central Illinois (51-44). The poll shows Senator Kerry holding a slight lead in Southern Illinois (48.5-47.0%).
McCulloch is a Republican, but is also working to become the goto guy on Illinois polling so he has incentives on both ends. That said, I’m not one who likes to argue over affiliation. McCulloch’s work is good from what I’ve seen, though all polls have limitations.
Flailing Like The Big Loser That He Is
Keyes, who earlier told GOP leaders of his intention to make provocative campaign statements to get attention, ratcheted up the rhetoric further as he declared that there was no difference between Catholics who support Obama and Germans who voted for the Nazi Party.
He’s in the wrong state, the HarshBishop in Saint Louis however would be a good match
“Any Roman Catholics who vote for Barack Obama are committing, in the opinion of the pope and the Holy See [Vatican City], a mortal sin,” Keyes told reporters after a Crusaders Ministries service on the South Side. “He stands for the destruction of innocent life. He stands against the respect for the male-female family. On embryonic stem-cell research, on all the key issues of conscience, he stands for the position that has been identified by the Catholic Church as objectively evil.
“Catholics who vote for him make themselves part of that evil, just as the folks in Germany who voted for the party that eventually led to the Holocaust.”
Hey, If you can Elect a Dead Man, let the Recently Dead Vote
Trib has the problem of figuring out whether voters are dead or not for the election.
Travelling
I will be posting from the road and from DCCC HQ in DC on election night so keep checking in though during the day tomorrow I’ll be flying until later afternoon. This will be at the top all day as a guide to the next couple days.
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No Whining
This guy defines what democracy is about. Wow.
TAHOKA, Texas – In the 10 days after Welch Flippin decided to stop dialysis and began succumbing to kidney failure, the 85-year-old Texas farmer and World War II veteran had something on his mind. Something, he told his son, he just had to do. He wanted to vote.
So when early voting started last week, his son went down the road to the Lynn County clerk’s office in Tahoka, a one-stoplight town of nearly 2,000 people 30 miles south of Lubbock, and asked if he could take a ballot home to his ailing father.
The clerk offered instead to make a house call.
“In a small town, we’re able to do that,” County Clerk Susan Tipton said Thursday. “But I’ve never had one that was under hospice care, so it was harder emotionally.”
The next morning, she went to the house and saw Welch Flippin, a man she had known for years from his work with veterans. When he smiled and greeted her by name, she knew he was alert enough to vote. She told him he could sign with an X. But he signed his name clearly.
When she left the room to give him and his son privacy, Perry Flippin held the ballot and started asking his father, a staunch Democrat, for whom he wanted to vote.
“You like Kerry and Edwards?” Perry Flippin, retired editor of the San Angelo Standard-Times, recalled in a column in the newspaper.
“Naw,” he replied wearily.
“Bush and Cheney?”
“Naw.”
The elder Flippin answered, “Yeah” when asked whether he liked 13-term Democratic Rep. Charlie Stenholm. His son marked an X for Stenholm.
He dozed off after that and did not talk to his son or wife again. The next day, Oct. 20, he passed away. His last conscious act was casting his vote.
Under state law, the vote will count.
“I think he knew exactly what he was doing, and I was privileged to cast that last ballot,” his son said Thursday. “I’m surprised that he would be thinking about that on his death bed, but he thought his vote was important.”
Crane Delivering Pizzas?
Powerful member of House Ways and Means is rumored to be doing a stunt delivering pizzas to constitutuents. Ummm…after 35 years, that’s a bit much.
Especially after Flippy died because someone rented the costume out for Halloween.
Let Me Explain Ambassador–Parental Advisory
Like hell you are staying in my state. (go to the video for the full effect)While I may currently live in Missouri, Illinois will always be my home and you have defiled it you freak. The entire comparison to Abraham Lincoln has pissed me off more than you could possibly understand. You are an ignorant ass who would have been put in his place by Abe in a sly, dry witted manner.
You ranted about Illinois without knowing a damn thing about. Your rant on automatic weapons was laughable. Your divisive bullshit about a culture war has no place in my moderate state. You turned a race into a three ring circus with your ego occupying all three rings.
You have bizarrely attacked one of the most decent and charismatic candidates in Illinois during my lifetime eclipsing even the cool charisma Thompson had, but few now remember.
You are now lying that abortion will cause a decline in the black population which is nothing short of a lie. Why? Because you think the ends justify the ends. You were funny for a while, but now you are just a giant horse’s ass.
Finally, you have claimed you were attacked with pipe bombs which was bullshit. You fucking lied about it and tried to use it to get money. You and your campaign staff are sick bastards who need to take your asses to some state where your kind of bullshit flies. You and your staff are so bizarrely out of touch you thought that receiving shit bombs would bring you more support.
In short–what the fuck is your major malfunction asshole? And why do you think anyone in Illinois wants to put up with you beyond Tuesday?
The Officer Backs Bush
Why does Bush want Carl Officer’s support? And why would the Leader treat this as a good thing.
Pat Gauen recounted the more colorful moments of Carl’s career in the PD in 2003:
My personal favorite was the day he gathered the press to announce that he was filing a federal suit to stop Gov. James Thompson from using the National Guard to seize the city. When I broke the news to Thompson’s press secretary, I thought the poor man would laugh himself into a stroke. No troops ever showed up.
Or maybe the best was the time Carl began a speech by greeting me from the podium, by name, but then complained the next day to my editor that the resulting story was unfair because he wouldn’t have spoken so candidly had he known a reporter was present.
No, I think it was the opening of an obstetrical unit to help deal with the community’s soaring population of unwed mothers. Carl, a bachelor, publicly announced that he was personally going to start work on populating the place that very night.
Oops, I almost forgot the major MetroLink ceremony where Carl wiped the smile off every face by vowing to block the project because he wasn’t consulted. (Civic leaders unanimously insisted that Carl was invited to every meeting but never once showed up.)
You’ve surely heard about how Zaire un-invited Carl to help fine-tune its government after he announced that he would take his own blood supply, so if he got sick he wouldn’t depend on its “monkey blood.”
Perhaps the best was when he got stopped by police doing 108 mph in a Jaguar borrowed from a convicted drug dealer. Carl bitterly denied the cop’s version, insisting he really had been doing 140.
Is there no end to it?
I haven’t gotten to the bodyguard with the Uzi. Or the $2,200 Carl claimed for trips never taken. Or the consulting contract the city council approved for $545,000 but Carl signed for $1.3 million. Or Carl’s hearty endorsement of a $450 million riverfront development plan long after everyone else, including a federal grand jury, figured out that it was just a big scam.
The uzis I believe, were present when he went to Big Al’s in Peoria–a gentleman’s club–and his ‘bodyguards’ had to explain why they were carrying uzis.
That’s some family values plan there.
From the Leader:
In breaking with his party on the Presidential race, Officer, an ordained minister, cited serious differences he has with the Democratic leadership on issues like gay marriage and abortion.
So uzis in strip clubs, okay. Populating the city obstetrics unit as a bachelor okay. But a woman having a right to choose and gay marriage bad. It’s all so clear.
If your party is so fricken’ desperate for any black person to back you all, you might try changing the approach.