We’re presently being inundated with showings of the television ad above. It doesn’t say anything I haven’t said a dozen times but it does say it pretty dramatically.
I think it will be very difficult for Rauner to be re-elected. Even more unfortunately it will be a victory for the do-nothing legislature in Springfield. I see little hope for Illinois if another governor who will just rubber stamp everything Madigan wants to do is elected but that’s likely what will happen.
If Democrats have a plan for resuscitating Illinois, I’d certainly like to see what it is. As it is it looks like their policy is that the beatings will continue until morale improves.
If I understand correctly, Illinois elected a well-spoken, soft-spoken, and ‘all around good guy’ as governor, and he was unable to fix the system. Maybe, Illinois voters should start looking for their Trump. The system is broken because well-meaning people believe in it, and it will continue until somebody has the balls to speak out against it.
My suggestion is gas and matches.
OT – The previous governor is in prison for attempting to sell a Senate seat, but the former head of the FBI is ‘on the street’ after trying to throw a Presidential election.
What is the difference? One is well-spoken and has good hair and the other – not so much.
Its Chicago and E St Louis areas that carry the vote totals, Tasty. Its not charitable, but IL voters deserve what they get. Dave blames Repubs for not running candidates, but masochism is out, and wastes money and time.
Generations of Bears fans line up to go see an inept management run a perpetually crappy team. And they will again, next year. Same with Chicago voters.
Blagojevich has great hair but is basically an idiot. He can barely string two simple declarative sentences together.
But he had this thing, and it was golden.
I got memories of watching the 1968 election, where unexplained “technical issues” prevented both Chicago and the entire southern half of Illinois from getting the ballots counted. It was clear to about 3/4’s of the country that Chicago election officers wanted to see the rural vote count for Nixon so they could fudge the city’s vote count for Humphrey, and vice versa — the southern precincts having learned their lesson in the 1960 election. In the end, if I recall, Chicago finally gave up about 3 in the morning and released their totals, and then — what a surprise! — the state went for Nixon. (My recollection is, while great fun for all concerned, the impact on the presidential election was pretty small.)
And ever since, for 50 years, Republicans across the nation fall into agonized poses every time elections are mentioned and scream about Democrats stuffing ballot boxes.
Anyhow. Illinois’ dysfunctional partisan politics have been obvious for some time, probably even before 1960.