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Re: Question of the day

Hagia Sophia — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:21:39 -0000

Biggest Losers: The voters of Cook County with the Stroger corrupt dynasty continuing, Cook County government is a high taxing corrupt nightmare and joke
Democracy lost also, I don't trust those machines, I don't trust how they got there
they don't work right, the elections are not fair or accurate

Biggest winners: the Irish, there will be a white backlash against African Americans but the Irish still control the African Americans
They will win on both accounts

Re: Question of the day

Max Maxwell — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:32:25 -0000

re: Why is Lisa Madigan a winner? She received almost 800,000 more votes than Blago. She may have beaten a nobody, but people remember who they voted for last time and are likely to vote for her the next time she is on the ballot, whatever the office. This is part of the reason the Repubs are in trouble- fielding bad candidates has an impact on future elections.

Re: Question of the day

decaturboy — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:54:20 -0000

Bob Flider for getting through another horrilbe campaign. One wonders how this guy sleeps at night with the negative ads he I mean Madigan ran to win this contest. Yes, Bob you are a big winner. At the same time you a bigger loser in a lot of people's minds who feel Madigan has taken a nice loveable guy who stood for the right things and turned him into just another Chicago controlled politican who will do anything to get elected.

Re: Question of the day

values matter — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:08:17 -0000

Why is Lisa Madigan considered a winner, winning against a no-name? I don't get that. She's not a winner in the big sense.

Big Winners ...
Rep. Mike Boland, for suckering another half million out of the speaker's pockets to bail him out. It's time for change in the 71st.

Sen. Barack Obama for floating into the political stratosphere of popularity

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart ... He outsmarted Speaker Madigan and others who wanted his career to end abruptly.

Comptroller Dan Hynes, for a smashing success in the past campaign (his third successive statewide win). He's positioned for Governor in 2010.

Losers... taxpayers of Cook County for not elected Claypool and electing more of the same sesspool that will suck tax dollars

Re: Question of the day

IL observer — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:44:42 -0000

Lisa Madigan for the dems and Aaron Schock for the repubs.

Both have demonstrated strong crossover appeal in the other party and both run particularly well with independents.

Both are uniqely able to pick up the pieces of their shattered parties.

The repubs are shattered now. The dems will be once the feds get done with Blago, Daley and Cook Co. Lisa had the foresight and fortitude not to endorse Rod. She has earned gravitas on policy and is widely believed to have done a really good job. She is not tied to corruption like Giannoulias is, (the $25,000 she got from Rezko is nothing compared to being the mob's ATM). Lisa leaves a good impression with people she meets, Giannoulias comes across as dripping with arrogance and possessing an IQ a mere one point higher than Todd Stroger. With Obama's continued backing, Alexi will challenge Lisa in the primary but the Madigans will win that one.

Schock is THE ONLY Illinois repub who is able to excite republicans and win over dem votes. He is a conservative who just won over African-Americans in Peoria and did well with labor too. He won big in a district more dem leaning than Illinois is. He's won 3 of 3 longshot races. Looking over his D-2s and A-1s is the only way to appreciate his world class ability to fundraise.

Illinois' future is not with the Pat Quinns or Bill Bradys. Both have lost badly in past races. Both are ideological extremists. And both are dull. Dan Hynes, who also lost a big race, is even duller, a zero on the inspiration meter.

For the repubs, Schock has the brightest future and the 2006 elections validated that fact.

Lisa will be our next Gov and that's why she is the biggest winner of 2006, even though Emil Jones had the best results for the 2006 elections.

Re: Question of the day

Anon — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:12:33 -0000

Winners:

Lisa Madigan -- She got to fly under the radar and has a great reputation and sense of inevitability about her coronation as governor in 2010.
Todd Stroger -- His glaring weaknesses didn't prevent his ascension to a post in which he will be almost invincible.
Patrick Fitzgerald -- Several big wins in '06. Prosecutors hate to lose.
Mike Madigan -- I'm not sure why yet (other than Lisa's steady ascension), but my bet is that the cards are in his favor.

Losers:

Rich Daley -- The bloom has come a bit off the rose and people are to taking bullets (prison) for him. It's hard to imagine that the feds won't find a Fredo in this extended family.
Blago -- He was reelected, but his popularity is on a steep downslope.
The Republican Party of Illinois -- The Peraica putsch put a bad cap on a bad year. Parties tend to regenerate fairly readily, but there is a lot of rotting vegetation (Oberweiss, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, Birkett, Hastert, Peraica, Topinka, Daniels, Kjellender, Levine, Cellini, Edgar etc.) for the new shoots to overgrow.

Re: Question of the day

Buck Flagojevich — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:53:21 -0000

Angie,

Are you trying to educate the Guv? Rod has been thinking that since P. Fitz was coaching football he wouldn't have the time to look into Rod's dealings.

Re: Question of the day

Arthur Andersen — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:43:53 -0000

Biggest Winner: Pat Quinn

Biggest Loser: Tony Rezko

Re: Question of the day

SouthsideBud — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:01:56 -0000

Biggest loser, Attorney Tom Durkin. As the lawyer for Sorich who kept telling everyone how what Sorich did was not a crime, then losing the trial. Now an innocent guy who paid him goes to prison, we should look for the "L" on his forehead. P.S. Tom, Don't show up in Bridgeport for a shot and beer.

Re: Question of the day

Conservative Republican — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:54:19 -0000

Biggest winners: Blagojevich--for now. Remember, the year started with most thinking he could not survive a primary, much less a general.
Obama--how can he not be? Bucked Madigan with Giannoulis and won and now is presidential timber.
Todd Stroger--from flunky son unheard of outside of the South Side to President of the Cook Co. Board

Biggest losers: Steve Rauschenberger--from respected State Senator with unlimited future prospects to unemployed (in politics anyway) has-been within months.
Denny Hastert--from third in presidential succession to back-bencher with the Foley mess and corruption suspicions nipping at his heels.

Re: Question of the day

Disgusted — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:59:12 -0000

Winners: Those who support rude, crude, illegal and stupid behavior to win at any costs - both in life and politics.

Losers: Those who try, despite the above, to remained kind and civilized.

Re: Question of the day

bench coach — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:44:19 -0000

winner...dems
loser....the Chicago Tribune/Forrest Claypool loving
columnists. the whining hurts the ears. and,
please just confess that you are a libertarian
and not a progressive, Forrest.

Re: Question of the day

Angie — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:43:38 -0000

Biggest winner (in Illinois) has got to be Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who got elected again for reasons having more to do with her having done a great job so far than the fact that no one knew who the heck Stu Umholtz was (she would've still won easily, I'm sure, had she been up against some other name).

Also a winner--Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who is not to be confused with football coach Pat Fitzgerald (no comments about the Wildcats being biggest losers, please, because that's obvious--chuckle).

Biggest loser statewide has got to be Rod Blagojevich, his 2nd term victory aside. This guy is going to be watched like a hawk from here on out, because there's just too much noise coming from his close pals/fundraisers. Also, he wouldn't answer the serious questions: Have you retained criminal defense counsel, explain the $1500 check, and so forth. And on top of it all, he apparently blew off his own undergraduate institution when they called all of the candidates about organizing some type of debate or interview! Nice job, Rod. It is only one of the top schools in the entire nation. Glad you gave them so much thought that you dissed them when the calls came and you were more than some lowly undergrad now that you're hooked up with bigwigs like Tony Rezko (snark snark snark).

Re: Question of the day

doubtful — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:09:51 -0000

Winner: ComEd/Exelon

Re: Question of the day

Squideshi — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:06:27 -0000

Biggest Winner: The Illinois Green Party.

Collected 39,000 signatures from Illinois voters in 90 days, even though only 25,000 were required. Defeated a drawn-out and costly legal challenge by the Democrat machine and got onto the ballot. Rich Whitney earned about 10% of the total vote, making the Green Party a legally established, statewide, major political party in Illinois.

Biggest Loser: The Democratic Party of Illinois.

Thanks to the Green Party's establishment, Democrats are going to be facing Green candidates at all levels in Illinois. They're going to be even bigger losers, if they don't get to work on Instant Runoff Voting right away.

Re: Question of the day

Buck Flagojevich — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:49:50 -0000

Hey, it's FAVRE not FARVE. We clear on that?

Biggest losers - anybody still glued to Blago's sinking ship.

Re: Question of the day

Wumpus — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:09:39 -0000

losers suburban voters. They left the screwed up democratic heck holes and now plan to move out here and screw our areas up. Thanks!

Re: Question of the day

North by Northwest — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:52:15 -0000

Biggest winner: Mayor Daley. With Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. dropping out, he won't have to explain the corruption scandals in a heated campaign against a tough foe.

Biggest loser: Rod Blagojevich. He's a much bigger target for the Feds as a sitting governor than a former one.

Re: Question of the day

respectful — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:36:23 -0000

Biggest winner: Bobbie Steele, who doubled her pension in four months and passes her commissioner seat to her son -- a double-steele!

Re: Question of the day

Anon — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:28:19 -0000

Winner: Lisa Madigan. Came into office questionable. Took on the Gov. Tough on sex offenders and consumer fraud and is totally respectable. Now, she everyone's favorite.

Losers: Cook County Dem Party. They'll have to justify their support of Stroger who is already a disaster.

Re: Question of the day

Bubs — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:26:53 -0000

Winner: Obama. He went from temporary phenom to Presidential candidate, with new national influence in the Democratic Party, and made millions to boot.

Loser: George Bush. He bet his Presidency, and his historical legacy, that he could create a functioning Iraqi government before the American people's patience ran out. He lost the bet on Nov. 7. Now he has a Democratic Congress; no Donald Rumsfeld, and no John Bolton; respective messes in Iraq, Lebanon, Iran and North Korea. His neo-Con Administration is dead in the water, waiting for the next salvo to hit with effect . . . with two years of lame duck status ahead.

Re: Question of the day

Nisok — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:25:37 -0000

Winners: Big Unions
Losers: Union Members

Re: Question of the day

Bilbo Baggins — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:23:51 -0000

I become ill everytime Bill Beavers opens that trap of his. That being said, even though I think he's the biggest loser, him and his family are the biggest winners. He gets a city and county pension now, and his daughter gets to take over his city council seat. Well played Beavers. Well played.

Re: Question of the day

Anon — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:12:24 -0000

Winners:
1) Rich Miller: No explanation needed. Blog on!
2) Pat Quinn: Gov in 2008?
3) Lisa Madigan: Gov in 2010?
4) Suburban Democratic voters: A beautiful growing bunch of grassroots hope.

Losers:
1) Topinka: Bad timing. Bad campaign. Finished.
2) The GOP: Hit the wall hard. Roskam even looked bad by winning dirty.
3) Duckworth? No, wait, she's up for an executive job. Wow, it was a Dem year, even in defeat. (She will do great.)
4) Suburban Republican voters: Not only are your neighbors voting Democratic, your wife is too!

Re: Question of the day

Wumpus — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:12:06 -0000

Losers, voters in IL
Winners, Business as usual, croneyism, corruption, Rich Miller and the Wumpus. He gets more attn to his Blog and I am a winner, regardless. Oh yeah, Ohio State Football and Youngstown State Football...Mount Union Football.