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   dtroutma said, 6 months ago

   The result of the elephant suicide pact?
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   fritzoid said, 6 months ago

   @

   “Gloating across the aisle.”
   

   
   Stantis is generally a Conservative. He’s calling it as he sees it, I guess (since I no longer live in Illinois, I haven’t paid attention to the statewide politics there).
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   PlainBill said, 6 months ago

   I thought that was Ohio.
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   Gresch said, 6 months ago

   …when you run out of someone else’s money…
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   ARodney said, 6 months ago

   The GOP died in Illinois, also in California and Colorado. People are genuinely startled by what conservatives have been doing when in power. It will take Michigan and Wisconsin some time to recover. Kansas has been GOP-controlled so long that people are leaving in droves. The governor, of course, blames it on high taxes.
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   fritzoid said, 6 months ago

   I’ve been looking for a county-by-county breakdown of the Illinois vote, but no luck. Usually, Chicagoland is blue, with the rest of the state almost solid red. The “almost” is accounted for by Champaign County (where I grew up), a little blue oasis of culture and sanity in the middle of the vast red wasteland. Is that changing?
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   omQ R said, 6 months ago

   @fritzoid

   Dred posted one …
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   fritzoid said, 6 months ago

   @omQ R

   Thanks! Champaign Countty is blue by about the same percentage as the genpop – 52%-48% (or thereabouts).
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   Gresch said, 6 months ago

   @fritzoid

   Most people would understand the urban elite snobs and welfare expectors (chitown) looking down on the hard working aggie and mining areas of the rest of the state,,, but many people would not know that your blue comes from the Unversity of Cham-Urbana and the vast number of lib college types and the "living off " their parents students… the home of tthe great insect moviethon ,,, wow culture…
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