Rich Miller covers some of the patterns that emerged on Tuesday:
Barack Obama’s victory looks a lot like Glenn Poshard’s 1998 gubernatorial primary win, only upside down.
Poshard won a bunch of small southern Illinois counties with 70, 80, 90, even 95 percent. Obama did the same on Tuesday, only he won a bunch of population-rich Chicagoland townships, wards and counties with Elvis-like margins.
I’ve already told you that Obama took 61 percent in suburban Cook County, but look at some of these township numbers. Obama hit 87 percent in Oak Park Township, scoring 10,315 votes to Dan Hynes’ 616. Yes, you read that right.
That was definitely the case in Evanston — we went ~89% for Obama.
Maybe, but let’s wait and see. Roland Burris did quite well downstate and Jesse White is no slouch either.
Chicago had some serious differences with Poshard on real issues and were faced with an alternative Republican that had closer views. I’m not sure that’s the case with this Ryan and downstate.