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sg0508
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« on: September 25, 2012, 04:29:07 PM »
The GOP was able to hang onto IL for decades because of the white, white-collar, moderate voters in the suburbs.  Bush 41 for example, killed Dukakis in the burbs and that's why he won states such as IL, PA, NJ, DE, CT, MI, etc.

As the GOP lost the burbs, they lost states like IL.
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