Feeling like an idiot about now…

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elespeif/senatorincongressmaprires.htm

our chances in the general.
YES, I KNOW HE SUPPORTED CAP AND TRADE.

DEATH TO KIRK RIGHT?

He wins, and knocks at G’s horrible bank dealings,

as liberal as he is in a CHICAGO CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT..
He stands a very, very good shot at winning this seat.

Primaries are a great way for conservatives, moderates, etc to duke it out.
In states where the conservative wins the primary, so be it. In states where the moderate wins the primary, so be it.
Thankfully this isnt like the nightmare of NY23 where Dede got handpicked, and the conservatives were totally shut out of the GOP selection process.

Kirk looks like he will win, if its the case, solidify around him, begrudgingly, and lets up our pickups from 7 to 8 this year.
Every additional competitive Senate race edges us closer and closer to 51 seats in the Senate.

Kirk is well positioned to pull liberal votes in a clear-cut R year. He can be the Scott Brown of Illinois if we work hard.

I will survive voting Kirk in November. I’ve had lots of practice holding my nose in this state.

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The real-time results are actual vote counts, so you need to know how many voters there are to know turnout. I’d expect IL to have more registered democrats than republicans so there should be more democrat votes (MA is 3:1 D:R).

Democrat votes outnumber Repub by about 2.5 : 1 (so far) so it seems probable that R turnout is at least as high as D turnout, if not higher. (I can’t find voter registration data for IL, ACORN must have crashed the site so I can only guess)

I had this gut feeling Hoffman would win and I think he may which would not be good for us

A lot of Southern Illinois has not been counted yet

With 82% precincts reporting there’s only a 4,517 difference between the first and third positions.

You are very right…we had a couple of governor candidates and even a couple of candidates for Obama’s senate seat that had similar pedigrees and positions. And as they are knocking each other out, the most “progressive” candidates are taking the nominations.

(Brady, Dillard, and McKenna are tied at 20% each at 9:45 tonight…I’m not sure of the % reporting. And as noted above, Kirk took it, with Patrick Hughes garnering half as many votes as Kirk received…38% to 19% or so.)

Sigh.

More work to do in my home state!

It appears Denny Hastert’s son lost GOP Primary to State Senator Hultgren to face Foster

Wisconsin or Washington either, although admittedly only if certain candidates get in.

And Thompson would be a solid-if-uninspiring Republican. Rossi would be a GREAT Senator, and Reichert, McKenna or Dunn would likely be Scott Brown types (although Reichert is pro-life).

Didn’t steal votes away from McKenna and Brady and hand the election to Dillard.

If Dillard wins, that’ll probably be why.

A lot Conservative in Illinois aren’t happy about Kirk but if Dillard is other stand bearer many may stay home which will be a disaster

He was a complete diaster as Party Chair, we never won an election statewide in his tenure (heck I dont even think a GOPer got even 45% of the vote) and he used party funds without the consent of the State Central community to conduct a poll to test the viability of his run for Governor. Dilliard might have RINO tendacies, but I dont have to worry about him committing a Felony in the governors office, which for Illinois makes you an excellent Governor.

He’s on WGN live right now and is counting on a strong showing in downstate districts still reporting.

(And, on another note, we all just had to listed to Obama’s bball buddy Alexi Giannoulias give his best impersonation of his idol as he accepted his nomination. We all need to pull behind Kirk…no matter who we voted for or why earlier today! We canNOT have a Senator Giannoulias!)

election lawyers as it looks like both Governor’s races will be going to an auto re-count.

As of 10:28, Dillard’s lead down to 700 votes, with still about 10 rural counties (strong for Brady) that have some precincts out.

Maybe, just maybe, we might have a reasonable conservative pull off a statewide win tonight?

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Is the worst.

I’d vote for Arlen Specter if I had to in order to keep him out of the Senate. Hell, I might even vote for Lincoln Chafee.

Hell, I might even vote for HILLARY CLINTON.

Ripperg, you are so right! I’m going to have to get a Mark Kirk for Senate sign!

We can only hope that the upcoming Blagojevitch trials besmirch Giannoulias and tarnish that rising star. Bleccch.

are in very Democrat areas in Chicago

i.e only 86% of Bobby Rush is in
93% danny Davis

because that is not the philosophy of this site

Does it help? At all?

Trying to make it a better place.

Look how well your strategy of sitting out the election worked in 2008.

Mew

Kirk is in no way to the left of Dede except on gun issues, which is understandable given his densely populated Chicagoland district. He also won a primary and can raise tons of money. Why bother to show up in November? If Quinn wins the governor’s office the Dems can redistrict most of the Republican districts in Illinois out of existence. So yeah kind of a big deal. Seriously if you are going to be defeatist post somewhere else.

Next – Durbin.

Take your Kirkophobia elsewhere.

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