Open Science Thread

Most eyes may be focused on next Tuesday’s Presidential primary extravaganza. But the race between Democrat Bill Foster and his conservative opponent a week from today in IL-14 isn’t a primary, it’s the real deal: The winner of the March 8 special election goes to Congress.

At stake is Denny Hastert’s old seat shown below right (Enlarge). Normally the GOP candidate could and would walk away with this district. But this is shaping up to be no ordinary year, and Bill Foster, award winning physicist and successful self-made businessman, is an extraordinary candidate. This race is more than a local special election: there's all kinds of national overtones in this face-off between progressive people power and the big-money, business as usual conservative crowd. It's Progressives Vs Conservatives; Science Vs dogma; Change Vs stagnation; Hope Vs fear; Unity and Inclusion for all Vs division and exclusive access for a privileged few. It's the Fifty-state Strategy vs. the losing big states only gamble.

Make no mistake, per usual we're the underdog. And yet against all odds there's real reason for hope. A recent poll shows Foster with a tiny lead in a statistical dead heat. The ad above left might give you an idea for why Bill Foster is so appealing to all kinds of voters. There may be a new ad -- featuring a political rock superstar -- debuting early next week. We have only a few days to raise money to air it, to close the sale with wavering undecideds, and hopefully, send a clear progressive message far beyond IL-14 and into every geographic crook and media cranny of this nation.

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