We can bitch and moan all we want but Diablo is going to win. There just aren't enough FReepers in Illinois, and unfortunately there are a lot of ignorant voters who have no idea who the candidates are.
I'm sure if you did a Jaywalking segment asking people who was running for the Senate they would probably say Rod Blagojavech, and umm, I dunno.
What I am FURIOUS about, not the fact that Kirk is a communist, we know that, but why hasn't ANYONE talked about the shootings that take place daily.
I was driving to the White Sox game yesterday and came up on the Dan Ryan. The democratic "base" were outside with their liquor in the brown paper bag, stumbling all over the place.
I think Chicago has more murders than Juarez Mexico and no one is talking about it. And Daley tries to ban guns and shootings go up.
The national guard needs to go in the south side and west side and do a mop up job, but we all know that will never happen.
I’m thinking he will lose, presuming neither is replaced on the ticket. If the murder rate were the same in Chicago as it is in Ciudad Juarez, that would be enough to topple Boss Daley. NYC in the early ‘90s had roughly the same numbers of murders as CJ (numbers, but not as a percentage of the population) and that’s what toppled David Dinkins.
I wouldn't so certain. The polls actually show Alexi with a 2-point lead at this point, a stastical dead heat. That speaks volumes for what a pi$$ poor candidate Kirk is, IMO. Alexi is undoubtedly the most blantantly crook RAT running for Senate this year. If ANY halfway decent Republican was on the ballot against Alexi, they'd probably be ahead by double-digits. Brady is polling those kinds of numbers against the incompetent Quinn, and Quinn isn't nearly as sleazy as Alexi.
The media (especially the most vocally pro-Obama media sources, not the Kirk fan club notices anything strange about that) are all in the tank for Kirk and they're predicting he'll win because Kirk has all the advantages when you factor in "other things" besides the poll numbers, like the obscene amount of money Kirk has raised compared to Alexi. And the fact the media itself will all endorse Kirk and promote him this fall will work to his advantage.
But I wouldn't say Kirk's victory is set in stone yet. Voters may not be aware of Kirk's horrible record in the House, but they ARE aware that the man is a pathelogical liar. The Chicago media was forced to report on this stuff after the national media exposed the real Kirk. Voters don't trust Kirk as far as they can throw him now. Any advantage he had over Alexi due to Alexi's seedy nature has now evaporated and voters (rightfully) see BOTH of the "major" party candidates as manipulative scumbags.
That's why the Green Party loon is polling 14% now with no money and no name recongition. He's not Alexi or Marky (same situation with the Greenie who polled double digit numbers next to Judy Barr & Blago in '06). Both parties slate horrible unfit candidates, and the Greens just benefit by default because they're the only alternative on the ballot. Despite being a socialist, LeAnn Jones even stands to pick up a big chuck of disgruntled Republicans and right-leaning independents, and those are precisely the kind of votes Kirk NEEDS to win Illinois. Even with big GOP turnout, there aren't enough hardcore card-carrying Republicans in the Chicago area to put Kirk over the top.
If Stufflebeam and Labro get on the ballot, they're also wildcards.
I believe the race is a toss-up at this point. But you're right, Brady on the top of the ticket winning big will have the unfortunate side-effect of getting Kirk more votes lower down on the ticket.
>> but why hasn't ANYONE talked about the shootings that take place daily.I was driving to the White Sox game yesterday and came up on the Dan Ryan. The democratic "base" were outside with their liquor in the brown paper bag, stumbling all over the place. I think Chicago has more murders than Juarez Mexico and no one is talking about it. And Daley tries to ban guns and shootings go up. The national guard needs to go in the south side and west side and do a mop up job, but we all know that will never happen. <<
You've got a good point. The liberal media and left-wing bloggers just LOVED to post all the death totals in Iraq every week to crusify Bush and claim he was a incompetant failure. But when more Americans are killed every week in Daley's Chicago than in Iraq, there's absolute silence from them. Total hypocrisy, seeing how the left constantly whined about the needless death of innocents. And since Chicago had a total fascist ban on ANY type of guns, they certainly can't claim they're weren't enough gun control laws. Another example of total epic fail from one-party RAT rule. Of course the liberal acamdemia gladly placed Bush at bottom of the barrel of U.S. Presidents (citing his "failures" in Iraq, even AFTER Bush turned it around and made it a success). But Mayor Daley is still a "model mayor". And Lisa Madigan is some kind of rising star and corrupt fighter when Illinois is the most crooked state in the union under her watch. Disgusting.