I live in Chicago and have come to believe that as blue as it is, the state would vote republican but for the cheating nine times out of ten. That this state has had republican governors at all is astounding given the corruption in Chicago. Someone here recently posted that a 16 unit building in Cook County had something like 432 registered voters.

My downstate friends are always pissed off because they think Chicago's population is what turns it. I can tell you there's no way the deadbeats that would vote for someone like Kim Fox, actually get their ass out of bed to vote. Not in those numbers.