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Oldiesfreak1854
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« on: August 13, 2012, 08:42:19 PM »
Illinois is not a solidly blue state.  They have elected quite a few Republicans to statewide offices (e.g. Mark Kirk) in recent years.  But it still leans Democrat for the most part because Bill Clinton got all the suburban moderates to vote Democrat in the realignment of 1992 and they never came back (out of fear for the "right-wing Nazi extremist" Republicans).  Wisconsin is a swing state, too.
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« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2012, 06:18:18 PM »
Clinton got the moderate suburbanites in the Chicago area to vote Democrat and they've been doing it ever since.
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