Who do you think would be the best Democratic candidate for us to face for Gov., Burris?
I agree, his cozy relationship with McCain-Feingold is more of a concern to me than his moderate stance on guns. Lucikly, it seems like he'd be more like Fitzgerald in office (Fitz votes for a couple anti-gun bills, but plays both sides when it comes to McCain-Feingold). I'll take two Fitzgerald's over a Fitzgerald and a Durbin.
I wish we could get freepers to agree a bit more on the Senate race. We've got the Durkin the camp with me, you, Barnical Bill, Clemenza, etc. The Cox camp is lead by RedWing9, SpintreeBob, and I think Santadru. And ever Oberweis has fans on this forum-- Chicagoland thinks he's the best candidate.
Luckily on the Senate race, it's pretty much 90% of us in favor of O'Malley, the remaining 10% going for Jim Ryan, and virtually no one supporting Wood (any freeper that thinks she'd be the best candidate is either a RINO or nuts anyway.) ;-)
>> Who do you think would be the best Democratic candidate for us to face for Gov., Burris? <<
I was hoping they'd nominate their 1978 nominee, Bakalis. Of course, Mikey figured out he had no shot so now he's dropped out. There's no ideological difference between the remaining three Dems...they'll split the Chicago liberal vote almost equally, so Poshard was a moron not to run again-- he would have been a shoo-in. Vallas is probably their strongest candidate, but we could beat him if we hit him over the head with all his seedy connections (corrupt father-in-law funding campaign, George Ryan came out today and "unofficially" endorsed him). Burris is pretty much a has-been in the primary, but I view him as a threat IF he gets the nomination because he'd probably have a lock on the minority vote, plus he can con a bunch of downstaters into think he's one of them ("I used to live in Centralia!") Beatable, but tough. Probably Blagojevich would the weakest Dem. No one can pronounce his name, and his "base" is exclusively on the north side of Chicago. He'll do poorly in the middle-class suburbs and terrible downstate. Plus Burris and Vallas come off as soft-spoken and likeable in person, Blagojevic comes off as a loudmouth know-it-all (remember Gore?)
O'Malley/Hawkinson (or O'Malley/O'Conner, although I personally HATE the latter, but he IS popular) vs. Blagojevic/Washington would probably be our best chance of winning, but it's hard to say at this point.