Neal’s Poll Analysis
Sun-Times Columnist Steve Neal points out that the polls are consistently supporting a large Blagojevich lead. Far from the inane analysis yesterday insisting that J-Ry has momentum, he is stuck at around 40% or below. Worse, he is barely breaking 50 in the collar counties and below 50 downstate. Some of that will come home at the end, but 6 days out he should be around 60 in both areas. Worse, he is off-message and whining about tactics instead of what the hell he is going to do. His commercials breaking in St. Louis are finally doing what he should have done 3 months ago–establish J-Ry as his own person. By this strategy he might just close the gap sometime in 2004.