Nichlemn
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« on: January 04, 2015, 10:55:26 PM » |
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I don't really see Madigan as being the juggernaut lots of people seem to think she is. Winning a downballot statewide office by a large margin, especially as the incumbent, does not necessarily indicate unusual aptitude as a candidate (see e.g. Terri Lynn Land and Alison Lundergan Grimes). Sure, they were running in states politically hostile to their party at the federal level, but they still didn't really perform any better (or performed worse, in the case of Land) than you'd expect a generic candidate to.
She might win in a blowout, but if so, it'd probably be a race that most Democrats would have won in a blowout.
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