I mean, Kirk is basically running as a Democrat. I've always said that he won't be easy to beat, even though I despise him.
The poll and the comparison with the Clinton/Trump poll mean nothing unless we know what, if any, questions were asked before those surveyed were asked about Kirk/Duckworth.
^^Also true.
How in the is he running as a Democrat?! Being a Republican is as much about lowering the tax burden, decreasing harmful regulation and rewarding economic success as having a Southern accent and talking about church, especially in IL. This isn't Dixie, thank God.
Don't you live in Iowa?
Yeah, but as my friends will tell you I identify as an Illinoisan culturally, family-wise, etc. 
Well, considering that Trump won Lake and DuPage counties, I would say that the old idea of the moderate, tempered Illinois Republican is withering.
Some certainly still exist - this is coming from a Lake County native whose parents both voted for Kasich and who knows one single Trump primary voter out of a dozen or two GOP primary voters in total.
Some of them will vote for Trump. Some will vote for Clinton. Some will not vote. All of them are lost and confused in the current political landscape.
They are raising kids that are voting for Democrats. I am one of them, as is my sister.
It's not their fault, as they didn't leave the party. The party left them. And oh, did it leave them, looking at 2016. Kasich didn't even finish in second.
