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« on: June 29, 2011, 09:09:25 AM » |
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GOP support in suburban Cook County has collapsed. As recent as 1988, GHW Bush won 43% of the vote in Cook County, or only -10 PVI nationally, and only -7 PVI statewide. IL Republicans would pimp their grandmothers to come anywhere near that close in Cook today. Plus even pre-Obama there has been a smaller, but steady erosion to GOP margins in Cook's suburban ring counties during the past 2 decades. That's been more than enough to offset Democratic defections in the far less populated downstate "Little Dixie" parts of the state.
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