- If I was an Illinois Democrat, I would be really concerned right now. At least concerned enough to not go on vacation after winning the primary. It will be interesting to see how they react now that they know how thin the ice is in Dem-leaning states.
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If I was an Illinois Republican, I would keep in mind that Scott Brown is a left-leaning Republican even in a state where Republicans are generally more moderate than their counterparts in other states. Boris Shor: “What this shows, however, is that the conservative base in the United States, far from dragging their party moblike into an unelectable extreme, has made the decentralized decision to support the realistically best candidate they can relative to the context in which he’s being elected.”
Also, what The Private Intellectual and Athenae said. Especially the part about “going back to People School.”
