FerrisBueller86
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« on: January 17, 2005, 12:02:29 AM » |
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Ah, my home state until 5 years ago. I STILL know Illinois politics better than Virginia and Iowa politics.
I can't believe that the Republicans imported Alan Keyes as their Senate candidate. Couldn't they have run one of the other Republican candidates? Couldn't they have picked an obscure candidate? Couldn't they just have run unopposed? As a Democrat, I am gleeful that the party embarassed itself by running Keyes. (One funny story I heard - When Republicans were passing out their GOTV flyers listing all their candidates, they excluded Alan Keyes from the list.)
The Republican Party really collapsed from the fallout of the driver license scandal, in which governor George Ryan was eventually implicated. The importation of Alan Keyes really drove a nail into their coffin.
I'm sure the Republicans will be back, though. The Illinois Democrats looked dead after the stunning defeats of 1994. Let's hope the Republican Party cleans up its act.
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