11 Days until the Election
Gubernatorial Race
- Holy decrease in the jobless rate, Batman! Now Pat Quinn has something to run on! The question, however, may be where to run with it. And unfortunately for Quinn, he can’t exactly run on the state of the Illinois treasury. But he can get cronies to help him run against Bill Brady’s legislative record. Because no one watched him run against it himself in the debate.
- On the other side, Brady is refusing to return money raised by people connected to ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich. And he also isn’t quite sure how many government workers he’ll have to lay off for his fiscal policy to work. But progressives don’t seem to care — they’re more obsessed with whether Bill Brady is on the side of the trees.
Senatorial Race
- Alexi Giannoulias channels his inner Richard Trumka and accuses Mark Kirk of “economic treason.” For holding a video conference with American businessmen who happen to work in Beijing. Seriously. Oh, and Giannoulias’ surrogates at the DSCC also apparently think Mark Kirk’s military record is something to attack. One can understand Giannoulias’ desperation — Kirk is up 2 even according to a Democratic-leaning PPP poll. I wonder if Bill Clinton feels his pain.
House Races
- Against all odds in IL-17, Phil Hare is definitely in trouble. And to make up for it, he’s touting his allegedly good record on military issues. We’ll see how well that stands up when he debates Bobby Schiling next week.
- Meet Bill Foster of IL-14, yet another Democrat in an allegedly blue state who’s vulnerable this election cycle. His means of attack against his opponent, Randy Hultgren, is to accuse him of not paying taxes. It isn’t working. Not at all.
- Debbie Halvorson of IL-11 is trying to demagogue economic issues and veterans’ issues to win against her challenger Adam Kinzinger, who is clearly ahead of her in enthusiasm. Too bad she’s dogged by corruption issues of her own.
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