Schillerstrom was doing worse. The bad news, Schillerstrom dropped out. All those promises Dan made…
In addition to Hynes’ attack ads, Quinn also has been targeted by McKenna, the most prolific advertiser on the Republican side. McKenna’s ad blitz helped him achieve support from 19 percent of Republican voters compared to 18 percent for Elmhurst’s Ryan and 14 percent for Dillard, of Hinsdale.
Another 9 percent backed state Sen. Bill Brady of Bloomington, while Hinsdale transparency advocate Adam Andrzejewski had 7 percent and Chicago political pundit Dan Proft had 6 percent. Another 17 percent were undecided in the survey of 592 likely Republican primary voters.
DuPage County Board Chairman Bob Schillerstrom of Naperville, who had 2 percent support in the survey, dropped out of the race Friday and announced he’s backing Ryan.
It looks like the top three anyone would have guessed at the beginning are pretty much the top three now. With all of the undecideds, late advertising and any ground game the candidates might have will be the difference. My guess is it guess now would be that it goes down to McKenna and Dillard in a race to see who blows it in the end. Ryan is relatively short on money and hasn’t provided a clear case for himself which is too bad. Brady might have an outside shot if he can clean up downstate, but it looks like Dillard is making decent inroads there.
And for the record, while I enjoy tormenting Proft, I give him credit for going all in–that takes some balls. And it provides me endless entertainment.
I really think he’s just in this to split alot of the ‘reform vote’. He blocked one of my friends after she asked him about how he always seemed to be on radio shows and other places after Adam was…He really pisses me off because all his criticism of Adam seems to be pretty inane (like his voice and style)
I’m also confident that he can’t win the general. He ran Alan Keyes campaign -you can look him up- he also came off as a bit too extreme and lost by almost 30% to Obama for US Senate…He also has a little bit too much dirt on him that can be used against him (http://illinoisreason.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/last-friday/)
Even if he does win, he can’t get get any aspect of his dramatic reform through. Unlike Adam, all of his proposals involve significant exertion from the legislature. (especially Education ‘Reform’ and Tax Cuts which are what he is best at)
When most of them are even unwilling to take a tax hike off the table, let alone cut spending/taxes, it would be interesting to see how he’d get anything done…
He is a real good speaker- he’s great at thinking on his feet and coming up with clever one-liners but I don’t think that won’t accomplish much…