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Originally Posted by Elphaba
Indiana and Illinois both have big chips on the table in the next election. What is the local, inside news in your state and what do you expect the outcome to be?
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Here in Illinois the Republican party is still trying to recover from the 2004 senatorial race where it pretty much disintegrated when Ryan backed out and the party drafted Alan Keyes to get obliterated by Obama. As of now, the Deomocrats hold every major state office except for one, which means that they're almost certainly going to loose some control. There's going to be a really hot race for Henry Hyde's old House seat now that he's retiring. That district used to be one of the biggest Republican strongholds in the country, but there's been a shift in the demographics in the last 10 or 15 years, and there's a decent chance that a Democrat could get it. They're already talking about big money being spent in that primary - one of the Republicans is already well over $1M in funds. It should be lilke the race that Kirk won up in Northbrook in 2000. Most of the rest of the seats are pretty safe for incumbents.