If you live in Illinois, you know how crazy Bill Brady is. He had been leading Pat Quinn in the polls by 8 to 12 points as of Labor Day. Three polls released this week have the race neck and neck. Bill Brady plans to not raise state taxes by cutting across the board. This will lead to increased property taxes to fund education. He also believes that abortion should not be allowed even in cases of rape and incest. He used the stimulus to pay zero federal income taxes last year, yet he campaigns against it.
The speaker of the house, Mike Madigan runs our state, so Brady's plans wouldn't come to fruition even if he did win, but it is still great news to see that we might not elect a nutjob as our next Governor.
So the Democrats are coming home. The trendlines look good. As I said, Pat Quinn is ahead of Teabagging Bill Brady in the latest Chicago Tribune poll(it's a right wing paper).
Alexi has also gotten ahead in the polls.
Well, what more is there to say? We do not want to go back, and we realize that we need to GOTV to avoid doing just that. I know that Illinois is a blue state, but the trends look good for us. Cheer up y'all, and do your best to keep the assholes out of Congress!
Edit: Added IL-Gov to title