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If you’re wondering about East Saint Louis, now just the rubble of the era of public high rise housing projects to warehouse poor Democratic black voters, 2/3 of the population has left the city. A bit over 7,000 ballots were cast, with Pat Quinn (D) getting 93% of the vote. That wasn’t enough votes to even carry Saint Claire County.
http://eslbec.il.electionconsole.com/electionsummary.php?e=2014%20General
I’ve read several stories about the voting in Illinois, but nothing can compare to the visual impact of that map.
Even in Cook County, Pat Quinn was only getting about 2/3 of the vote. Tom Roser – regular panel member on the Sunday night Beyond the Beltway show used to joke about being one of the handful of
Republicans in Chicago.
Pat Quinn was a really decent guy with he was not in charge – he would go on talk radio regularly – but he became a bully as Governor, massively increasing taxes and doing everything he could to try to subvert the Heller decision requiring Illinois (and Chicago) to allow residents to own and carry handguns. Shockingly, both shootings and homicides are down significantly in Chicago.
Pat Quinn refused to concede election night “until every vote is counted” which is code for “until Democratic volunteers find box after box of absentee ballots in the trunk of their cars they forgot they had” – but by morning, Quinn was 170,000 votes behind, and no quantity of fraudulent ballots was going to change the outcome.
Being in the belly of the beast (doing work at a state agency in Springfield), I appreciate your observations. Here’s a couple more observations/opinions…
Quinn did relatively well (38.8%) in normally strongly Republican Sangamon County where state employees and retirees were afraid of Rauner, as well as major university counties like Champaign (U of I), Jackson (SIU), DeKalb (NIU). He only broke 40% in nine counties (besides Cook). His low point was in Wayne (SE Illinois) at 10.8%.
Also, did you notice that a Republican (Bost) took the SW IL congressionaly district that includes St. Clair County? I think that is significant. Unfortunately Durbin still won, although with probably his smallest plurality ever. He only won 14 counties statewide.