Illinois Primary Thread

[ill ind]

  Official results in.  It's Brady by 193 votes.  Dillard has conceded.

From the top:

Dem Governor

Pat Quinn  462,049
Dan Hynes 453,677

GOP Governor

Bill Brady            155,527
Kirk Dillard          155,334
Andy McKenna    148,054
Jim Ryan             130,785
Adam Andre..ski 111,030
Dan Proft              59,335
Bob Schillerstrom    7,420 (dropped out but name remained on ballot)

Green Governor

Rich Whitney  5,086

Dem Lieutenant Governor

Scott Lee Cohen  213,475
Arthur Turner       183,208
Rickey Hendon     113,690
Mike Boland          105,867
Thomas Castillo    105,383
Terry Link             100,335

GOP Lieutenant Governor

Jason Plummer    238,169
Matt Murphy        233,572
Don Tracy              80,116
Brad Cole              61,317
Dennis Cook          55,339
Randy White Sr     32,343

Green Lieutenant Governor

Don W. Crawford  4,968

Dem Attorney General

Lisa Madigan       838,605

GOP Attorney General

Steve Kim            641,689

Green Attorney General

David F, Black  4,917

Dem Secretary of State

Jesse White     854,408

GOP Secretary of State

Robert Enriquez 627,224

Green Secretary of State

Adrian Frost  4,931

Dem Comptroller

David E. Miller            393,405
Raja Krishnamoorthi  384,794
Clinton Krislov             64,086

GOP Comptroller

Judy Baar Topinka     430,996
William J. Kelly           157,774
Jim Dodge                 139,336

Green Comptroller

R. Erica Schafer  4,908

Dem State Treasurer

Robin Kelly           472,494
Justin Oberman    343,307

GOP State Treasurer

Dan Rutherford      654,517

Green State Treasurer

Scott K. Summers 4,918



Dem U.S. Senator

Alexi Gianoullias          352,202
David Hoffman            304,757
Cheryle Jackson          179,682
Robert Marshall             51,813
Jacob Meister                16,317 (dropped out but name still on ballot)

GOP  US Senator

Mark Steven Kirk        420,373
Partick Hughes           142,928
Donald J. Lowerey       66,357
Kathleen Thomas         54,038
Andy Martin                 37,480
John Arrington             21,090

Green US Senate

Lealan M. Jones      5,161




There you have it.

All official and everything

Ill_Ind

[Meeker]

So what's going on with the Democratic Lt. Governor nomination?

[muon2]

So what's going on with the Democratic Lt. Governor nomination?

The state central committee of the DPI is schedule to meet in a couple of weeks. They can appoint someone from the 70+ applicants, they can appoint someone who didn't apply, or they can leave it vacant.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

State Senator Bill Brady has is much weaker opponent than Dillard, I will take him and it won't have coattails as far as the Senate race.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

State Senator Bill Brady has is much weaker opponent than Dillard, I will take him and it won't have coattails as far as the Senate race.

Brady is by far the better candidate for Kirk.

Having two candidates from the same geographical area with the same political ideology does nothing to excite the whole of the Republican Party. Brady excites and brings people to the polls who simply would not otherwise get excited for Kirk.

Besides, it's not like Dillard would have won. He comes across as a pretty lousy candidate.

[Franzl]

I agree with Mr. Moderate....Brady and Kirk both profit from each other due to their seperate bases.

I don't think the Republicans could be in a better position all in all. Yeah Quinn might be leading by 15 in that R2000 poll, but a lot of that, IMO, has to due with the Chicago area not knowing Brady very well. Look at some of his primary numbers in Chicagoland. He's hovering around 5% in Cook and DuPage County. Obviously he isn't Chicago's type of candidate, but name recognition played a fairly large role, I think.

Brady probably won't defeat Quinn, that's going a little too far....but it's a net positive for the Illinois GOP regardless.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Well the last two governors have followed the compassionate conservative agenda in Gov Ryan and Edgar, not far right candidates who follow a right wing agenda on abortion.  I think Brady is still disadvantage to Quinn on raising money and on his far right social agenda.

I think Dillard compassionate conservative agenda would have helped Kirk in the Collar county surburbs not in downstate where the Dems don't do well anyway.

[Franzl]

Well the last two governors have followed the compassionate conservative agenda in Gov Ryan and Edgar, not far right candidates who follow a right wing agenda on abortion.  I think Brady is still disadvantage to Quinn on raising money and on his far right social agenda.

I think Dillard compassionate conservative agenda would have helped Kirk in the Collar county surburbs not in downstate where the Dems don't do well anyway.

I don't think you quite understood the point. Downstate Illinois will be more motivated by Brady's candidacy to go to the polls, and it's likely they'll vote for Kirk for Senate at that time, even if they don't like him very much.

I don't think Brady is going to win, he's too much of a nutjob to get enough support in Chicagoland, but it's still only a lean Democratic race, and Democrats shouldn't be too confident. At any rate, the toss-up is the Senate race, and Brady gives a boost to Kirk that Dillard never could have provided.

[Eraserhead]

Brady looks like a major dud to me.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Kirk and Giannoulias have the same positions on gun ownership and he couldn't get the conservative blue collar union white surburbian vote in Highland park in a rematch with Seals, I doubt the conservatives will give him that much more support. They will either stay home or vote for Eli Whitley just like they did in 2006.  

However, I do see them a bit more enthustiastic than Topinka's candidacy.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

However, I do see them a bit more enthustiastic than Topinka's candidacy.

...lol?

[Franzl]

However, I do see them a bit more enthustiastic than Topinka's candidacy.

...lol?

I'm not sure Quincy has understood that Kirk is running for Senate.

[Franzl]

There hasn't been no such public poll to support a claim that Brady has done better than Dillard would have and I was just stated the obvious he was a candidate that is down in the polls by double digits.

Well first of all, I'm not necessarily claiming that Brady will do better than Dillard would have....although that remains to be seen. Polls at this time don't mean very much.

Second, this was about which gubernatorial candidate is more useful for Kirk's Senate campaign, and I think the answer is very clearly Brady.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

They may be more useful, but they won't win due to the fact that Illinois likes balance and they like people who want to conserve rather than cut.

As far as I can tell, both of them wants to cut entitlement spending and continue tax cuts.  Where Quinn and Giannoulias wants a balance of entitlement spending as well as smaller tax cuts.

[muon2]

The primary has been over a long time. The GOP sorted out their winner a couple of weeks ago. Today the Dems resolved the problem created by their LT Gov winner and his subsequent withdrawal. They selected Sheila Simon, a law professor and daughter of the late US Sen Paul Simon. This was Gov Quinn's preference.

Quinn has bridges to be mended with the Black community since they passed over State Rep Art Turner who was the runner-up for Lt Gov in Feb. Turner's campaign bused 200 supporters to Springfield today to try to sway the Democratic State Central Committee.

[Lunar]

Would have made more sense to just go with the runner up.  It seems less backroom dealy

[Verily]

Would have made more sense to just go with the runner up.  It seems less backroom dealy

Meh. When the winner had, what, 21% of the vote, it's not like the runner-up has any serious legitimacy to claim anything.

[Lunar]

Would have made more sense to just go with the runner up.  It seems less backroom dealy

Meh. When the winner had, what, 21% of the vote, it's not like the runner-up has any serious legitimacy to claim anything.

Yeah, but at least then you're giving it to someone who campaigned for it, who worked for it, who built up alliances etc. for it.  

I still think it would have been cool of Hynes took the spot, and from the position of Lt. Governor, worked to eliminate the office of Lt. Governor (one of his campaign proposals).

[Lunar]

Swing State Project summarizes my concerns:

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[muon2]

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In the end this was about the person Quinn wanted. The 200+ applicants really didn't matter though it made for lots of interesting local stories. The candidates who campaigned in the primary didn't matter either.

Quinn wanted a running mate he was comfortable with. His first choice, Tammy Duckworth, turned him down weeks ago to stay in DC. His second choice, State Sen. Susan Garrett, wouldn't back his tax plan, and made some comments last week while she was being touted that turned him off. That brought him to Friday when he endorsed Simon for the spot.