Were it not for Keyes and the ILRCC Obama, who was eminently beatable in his Senate race, wouldn't be where he is today.
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Illinois got Obama because that’s what they preferred. Same with the rest of the country. They didn’t want leaders who challenged them to do the hard work of doing their citizen duty and restoring moral self-governance in this country. They wanted cotton candy inanities, even though those inanities masked Marxist ideologues.
And of course, throughout that campaign, just like on this thread, Alan was savaged first and foremost by Republicans, using the Alinskyite tactics they borrowed from Obama and Co.