IL-PPP: Quinn tied with all

[pbrower2a]

This happens with machine politics -- people eventually get horrible politicians but few reliable means of getting rid of them. This is a mirror image of Texas, Kansas, and Georgia in which Republicans have awful governors who can be defeated only if people get desperate. The Democrats mercifully have few states in which such is possible.

The machine politicians use political patronage to win support from well-heeled contributors who then sponsor the re-election of their political benefactors. The public gets $crewed. 

[pbrower2a]

Patrick Quinn has the dubious record of enacting a draconian income tax. That draconian income tax will of course expire if the people vote correctly in the 2014 elections.

The people will soar to the polls to deliver a good thrashing.

"Governor of Illinois" is the most snake-bitten office in America. The Governor's mansion seems to have a trap-door to a prison cell.