CARLHAYDEN
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« on: January 16, 2005, 05:21:14 PM » |
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A very interesting article.
If you check the data on Illinois, you will find that it has more elected local officials than any other state.
The problem is that in Illinois, the Republicans became excessively reliant on the Goveno, and let their local political assets wither away due to nonuse.
In addition, they became largely reliant upon the Democrats screwing up to elect statewide officials.
I suspect that the Illinois Republicans have 'bottomed-out,' and will state a gradual revival.
The revival may be dependent upon the Democrats 'screwing up' again, and on the continuing population movement from Chicago to the suburbs,
Due to the 'screw up' nature of the Republican party organization in Illinois, Bush chose not to seriously contest that state. If he had, he would have done significantly better than was actually the case.
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