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Friday, Sep 12, 2014 - Posted by Rich Miller

* Your one word summation of the Illinois governor’s race so far? One word only, please. And it has to be a real word. No profanity in any language.

125 Comments

- Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:12 pm:
Entertaining.

- QCLib - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:13 pm:
Rollercoaster

- John Bambenek - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:13 pm:
Stabbytown

- wayward - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:15 pm:
Dismal.

- JS Mill - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:15 pm:
Depressing

- Norseman - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:15 pm:
Pitiful.

- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:15 pm:
Ugh.

- OneMan - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:17 pm:
Schadenfreude

- Demoralized - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:17 pm:
Pathetic

- Tom B. - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:17 pm:
Exasperated

- Ducky LaMoore - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:17 pm:
Schadenfreude

- MrJM - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:17 pm:
Septic.

– MrJM

- Under Further Review - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:18 pm:
Frivolous

- Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:19 pm:
Mephitic.

- Mason born - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:19 pm:
Contemptible. Could give you some more but might break the profanity rules.

- 47th Ward - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:23 pm:
Dishonorable

- Western Ave. Doug - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:23 pm:
Erbreche

- VanillaMan - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:24 pm:
Negative

- Marty Funkhouser - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:24 pm:
Shallow

- John Boch - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:25 pm:
Distractions

- train111 - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:25 pm:
childish

- bloval27 - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:25 pm:
Poppycock

- Jechislo - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:25 pm:
Juvenile

- Mr. Big Trouble - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:27 pm:
nauseating

- Jimmy CrackCorn - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:27 pm:
Spendy

- Recidivist - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:28 pm:
Trenchant

- bottom rung. - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:28 pm:
Alternative.

- downstater - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:29 pm:
Pathetic

- lil enchilada - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:29 pm:
Expensive

- Shemp - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:30 pm:
Face-palm

- Frankie L - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:30 pm:
sad

- A guy... - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:30 pm:
Hypnotic

- East Central Illinois - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:30 pm:
Perilous

- Modest Proposal - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:31 pm:
Keyless

- John A Logan - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:31 pm:
Scripted

- Jocko - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:31 pm:
Knife-fight

- A guy... - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:33 pm:
schizophrenic

- bottom rung. - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:34 pm:
Rich

- Cassandra - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:35 pm:
Tedious

- anon - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:36 pm:
Disturbing
Despicable
Deceitful…mostly from Rauner

- Filmmaker Professor - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:37 pm:
Typical

- Bill White - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:37 pm:
Mud-wrestling

- Marian - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:38 pm:
Useless

- Royce - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:40 pm:
Synthetic

- Diogenes in DuPage - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:40 pm:
Half-truths

- Deep South - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:42 pm:
Embarassing

- Angel's Sword - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:43 pm:
Fun

- Jake From Elwood - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:43 pm:
contemptible

- Dirty Red - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:44 pm:
http://media.giphy.com/media/bdQzj73IMMtq0/giphy.gif

- LRH - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:46 pm:
enturbulate

- Louis G Atsaves - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:47 pm:
Trivial

- NotRMiller - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:49 pm:
Help

- Hit or Miss - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:50 pm:
Underwhelming

- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:50 pm:
Toxic

- Formerly Known As... - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:51 pm:
Sick

- 47th Ward - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:52 pm:
Faustian

- Yellow Dog Democrat - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:53 pm:
Uninspiring.

- Ravenswood Right Winger - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:54 pm:
Turgid

- Ando - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:55 pm:
Commercials

- Adam Smith - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:57 pm:
mysanthropy

- bottom rung. - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:57 pm:
Sanguinetti

- ash - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:57 pm:
frightening

- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 2:59 pm:
Downhill

- Checkers - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:03 pm:
Disheartening

- RetiredISP - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:05 pm:
Predictable

- Under Influenced - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:05 pm:
Petty

- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:07 pm:
flim-flam

- phocion - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:09 pm:
Shabby

- Jimmy - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:13 pm:
muddy

- un_squezzed - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:15 pm:
Bloviate

- Jay Dee - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:16 pm:
Garbage

- Levois - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:16 pm:
unremarkable

- Wensicia - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:20 pm:
Machiavellian

- truthteller - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:21 pm:
mendacious

- Gus - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:21 pm:
MikeZ’d

- Downstate Weed Chewing Hick - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:24 pm:
disingenuous

- Bemused - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:25 pm:
Deception

- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:32 pm:
chicanery

- OldSmoky2 - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:34 pm:
Acquisition

- sal-says - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:34 pm:
HaHaHa

- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:34 pm:
“Magical”

- the unknown poster - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:34 pm:
Kvetchy

- yana-inti - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:35 pm:
uninformative

- CLJ - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:35 pm:
sunshine

- Rich Miller - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:36 pm:
Baloney

- steve schnorf - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:36 pm:
so many of the good ones are taken, but I like “sordid”

- Bunson8r - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:37 pm:
sigh

- the unknown poster - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:40 pm:
Illinoisish

- A guy... - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:40 pm:
=== steve schnorf - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:36 pm:

so many of the good ones are taken, but I like “sordid”===
OR
sorted

- CircularFiringSquad - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:43 pm:
“We expected so much more from Mitt when we sold out” WhackyJack.

- LincolnLounger - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:43 pm:
Fallacious.

- the unknown poster - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:44 pm:
Cloying

(unpleasantly excessive)

- DuPage - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:46 pm:
Napalm

- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:47 pm:
illinoisans

- archimedes - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:52 pm:
Lowbrow

- Joan P. - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:52 pm:
Is hyphenation okay?

Bottom-feeding.

- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:52 pm:
punchy

- Amalia - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:53 pm:
grandstanding

- Finally Out (formerly Ready to Get Out) - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:54 pm:
Hornswoggle

- bottom rung. - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:54 pm:
profane

- Lord Stanley's Cup - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:55 pm:
September.

- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:56 pm:
busdrivers

- 3rd Generation Chicago Native - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 3:59 pm:
Bombarded

- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:01 pm:
jailcover

- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:05 pm:
puppets

- Wensicia - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:07 pm:
Power

- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:09 pm:
retraction

- Sunshine - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:12 pm:
FUBAR

- dupage dan - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:12 pm:
sulfurous

- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:13 pm:
doublespeak

- dupage dan - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:13 pm:
odoriferous

- dupage dan - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:14 pm:
odius

- dupage dan - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:15 pm:
Shackmanian

- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:16 pm:
Slouchy.

- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:17 pm:
Props

- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:18 pm:
Fictitious

- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:18 pm:
threeway

- Precinct Captain - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:18 pm:
Miserable

- Chicago Cynic - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:20 pm:
Underwhelming

- Chicago Cynic - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:21 pm:
Vapid

- WhoKnew - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:21 pm:
superfluous

- Chicago Cynic - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:21 pm:
Empty

- WhoKnew - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:22 pm:
SNAFU!!!

- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 12, 14 @ 4:23 pm:
grimm

- northernwatersports - Monday, Sep 15, 14 @ 1:23 pm:
huh?

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