Can someone please explain to me how the heck the GOP managed to win a senate race in IL of all states as recently as 2010? I get that was a wave year but this is IL we are talking about not to mention that was Obama’s home state! Kirk also got killed 6 years later.
The last time the Republicans won a U.S. Senate election from Illinois in what was also a U.S. presidential election was with the second-term re-election of Charles Percy in 1972.
When the Republicans win a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois, they do so while the White House is in the column for the Democrats. (This was the case in 1998 and 2010. It may happen again in 2022.)
