Breaking News: Man does well in home state. Midwest likes fellow Midwesterner.
Ya know, I just noticed Jimmy Carter did very well in the South, too.
Nobody from outside of the Chicago area feels any sense of identity with a Chicagoan. Midwestern identity isn't like southern identity. I remember my dad saying once that Chicago wasn't really midwestern.
Downstate Illinois voted for Obama in his 2004 race.
Downstate Illinois would literally vote for a pile of garbage over Alan Keyes.
Ummmm...okay but as noted above the three times a Midwestern Democrat was at the top of the ticket the Midwest did trend Democrat so clearly the region as a whole has an affinity for their own regional candidates regardless of how "Chicagoan" they are.
