DS0816
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« on: June 29, 2011, 09:11:01 PM » |
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Illinois was, perhaps, the best bellwether state from the Rs' first election, in 1856, up till 1988, having voted with the winner in all but three: 1884, 1916, 1976. All those were D presidential victories where the losing R carried the Prairie State.
The hard right turn in social policy by the Rs is what helped turn Illinois and likeminded voting states in the upper midwest, and all of New England (leaving only New Hampshire competitive), away from the Republican Party. (Think of that 1992 Republican National Convention speech by that a**hole Pat Buchanan!)
Ill. won't be going back to Team Red unless the party is winning nationally by at least 6 or 7 points. And the Rs haven't won by greater than 2.46% since the end of the 1980s.
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