CDs Seals and McSweeney
ArchPundit
Seals is holding relatively steady and McSweeney is up, but no idea on the geography. McSweeney around 38-40. Seals is running around 60-70
Lake County is heavy as of now
Watch Rich If You can or listen to me
But if you want local Chicago TV and you aren’t near the area, Channel 5 will be webcasting starting at nine.
Spot Check on Some Races
Looking around, Oberweis is slightly ahead or very close to Judy–whether this is significant it’s hard to say–given he might have spurred more early voting with die hard supporters, it could fade away.
Or it might not, but it is interesting.
Blagojevich appears to be hitting about 2-1 most places that have reported so far. Probably not as good as he’d like, but about what I’d expect.
No, No, No Eric–Don’t Network the Computers
Eric suggests we should have a networked system to give us immediate results—no, no, no,
One of the points of not using a network is the system is far more secure and many, if not most systems have been rfp’d to not be networked for that very reason. Once the systems on a network–it becomes far more vulnerable.
So, don’t worry, there’ll always be a chance to bloviate.
Where to Go For Your Own Results?
County/City Sites are the best for immediacy, for cross jurisdiction races, you should rely on the media—State Board of Elections does not have a centralized count. Go here for urls to many counties
Media will provide the best combined reports.
IlliniPundit Has Champaign covered
So go over there for the fastest stuff–I’ll be checking in an linking
Lake County Is Starting To Come IN
Just got off the air and of course when I refreshed, Lake County was up.
Giannoulias up handily
Seals 2-1 (Lake County Portion Only)
Oberweis at 40
Judy at 33
McSweeney 40
Salvi 30
Churchill 20
(all partial and ONLY Lake County)
New Survey USA Numbers
For today, the important numbers are 60% Democratic approval, 36% Disapproval. That might well mirror his results today.
Another interesting set is that for pro choice individuals with a 49% approval and 47% disapproval. This is why the choice of Republican nominees is so critical to him—if it goes to Brady or to Oberweis he gets a huge jump on them by solidifying that group. They may not like him, but they’ll vote for him .
Open Thread—Pre Poll Closure
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Tell me what’s happening out there–bunches of schools closed in Central Illinois—Southern Illinois shouldn’t be too bad if the weather is the same as here in Saint Louis–a good covering, but roads are fine and it isn’t that cold–some danger it could ice up later in the day.
What’s the pace like at your polling place?
Candidate sightings?
Bizarre occurrences?