I tend to remember campaigns I lose more than campaigns I win anyway, but this is one I’ll never forget.
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Governor JB Pritzker’s live-to-tape combined State of the State and budget address wasn’t so much a budget speech.
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The national media seems to have sunk its teeth into the notion that Republicans alone are responsible for gerrymandering legislative districts around the country. Then there’s Illinois.
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House Speaker Michael Madigan’s best path to re-election victory may be a political siege. In war, that was isolating Vicksburg to use up its artillery and food in an effort to make the rebels capitulate. Madigan may do it with political capital.
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By my count, with a little organizing help from Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office, there have been at least 27 separate lawsuits filed against Governor JB Pritzker or other officials related to Pritzker’s executive orders or enforcement of those orders.
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Campaign finance reports are in from the 3rd quarter. We know who is spending money where and how much Democrats are outspending their Republican opponents. We have a sense of who is running a good campaign and who isn’t. So, with two weeks to go, we present to you an updated list of our top 10 legislative seats likely to flip in November.
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Back in 2007, as a reporter in Champaign, I was covering a lot of unrest and dissention around the University of Illinois, its Board of Trustees, and a load of issues that eventually took down the school’s President, Chancellor, and other high-ranking officials.
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The first time I uttered the words “I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States,” I was a nineteen-year-old enlistee in the United States Air Force. The year was 1969.
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2018 was terrible for Illinois Republicans. Their incumbent Governor was creamed, they were once again held out of statewide office, they lost legislative seats, and turned over two suburban congressional seats to the Democrats. A third, Rodney Davis, came dangerously close to losing.
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With Labor Day as the traditional “kickoff” to the final stretch of a campaign season, we’ve pored though fundraising numbers, previous results, demographics, talking to smart folks, and maybe looking into a crystal ball to find the 10 legislative races most likely to flip on (or after) November 3.
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Welcome to The Illinoize. Sure, it is a funny name with a cool stylized Abe Lincoln logo, but I would like to share a few thoughts as to what we’re doing here. And why.
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