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Monday, Nov 3, 2014 - Posted by Rich Miller

* Sum up this campaign season in one word, and one word only. No “new” words, please.

208 Comments

- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:23 pm:
Phony

- Martin S. McFly Sr. - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:23 pm:
Exhausting

- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:23 pm:
Artificial

- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:24 pm:
Characters

- Nearly Normal - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:24 pm:
Nasty

- That Guy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:24 pm:
Echo

- gabe - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:24 pm:
Exclusive

- Request clarification - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:25 pm:
Are words from the Urban Dictionary allowed?

- William j Kelly - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:25 pm:
Transcendent

- Western Camel - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:25 pm:
Fanfaronade [look it up; it’s a real word]

- Wensicia - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:25 pm:
Embarrassing

- Jaded - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:25 pm:
Over

- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:25 pm:
Raunerbots

- Blue Dog - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:26 pm:
Contemptible

- Abe the Babe - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:26 pm:
Baseless

- DuPage - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:26 pm:
Untrue.

- Rahm's Parking Meter - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:26 pm:
Oy!

- VM - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:26 pm:
Expensive.

- train111 - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:26 pm:
waste

- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:27 pm:
Ca$h

- lil enchilada - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:27 pm:
dirty

- Hacksaw Jim - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:27 pm:
Expensive

- Keyser Soze - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:27 pm:
unreassuring

- chi - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:27 pm:
unfortunate

- Aldyth - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:27 pm:
Frustrating.

- Rich Miller - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:27 pm:
Eternal

- How Ironic - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:27 pm:
Agonizing
Exasperating
Irritating

- OneMan - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:28 pm:
Ugly

- Louis Howe - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:28 pm:
Repetitive

- Eddy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:29 pm:
Normal

- Amalia - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:29 pm:
duplicitous

- Gooner - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:29 pm:
Fumbled

- Ghost - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:29 pm:
Hyperbole

- Louis G Atsaves - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:29 pm:
Disgraceful

- Ghost - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:30 pm:
Illinois

- Diogenes in DuPage - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:30 pm:
Smear

- Bluefish - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:31 pm:
Sad

- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:31 pm:
Pandering

- ??? - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:32 pm:
Low

- Downstate Weed Chewing Hick - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:34 pm:
disdainful

- William j Kelly - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:35 pm:
Atsaves, you might want to look into the concept of projection.

- Peoria Guy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:35 pm:
Disappointing

- Jaded - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:35 pm:
Quinnocchio

- Stuff Happens - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:35 pm:
Facade.

- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:35 pm:
American

- Pete - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:36 pm:
Carhart

- 47th Ward - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:38 pm:
Hammered

- Redux - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:38 pm:
covert

- Founding Fathers - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:39 pm:
Depressing

- Carl Nyberg - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:39 pm:
Formulaic?

Unsurprising?

- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:39 pm:
Cluster

- Jaded - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:39 pm:
Carthart

- Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:40 pm:
Wine.

- Downstate Libertarian - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:40 pm:
Draining

- AC - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:40 pm:
Repugnant

- econ prof - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:41 pm:
Annoying

- Stuff Happens - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:41 pm:
As a funnier submission:

borborygmus: a rumbling or gurgling noise made by the movement of fluid and gas in the intestines. Usually a sign of things to come.

- Jaded - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:42 pm:
Carhartt (sorry)

- Jocko - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:42 pm:
Sulfurous

- Western Ave. Doug - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:43 pm:
Willy

- Sir Reel - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:43 pm:
Unnenlightening

- garlic bread - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:43 pm:
Tied.

- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:46 pm:
Repugnant

- Almost the Weekend - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:46 pm:
2010

- Kasich Walker, Jr. - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:47 pm:
Protracted

- Under Further Review - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:47 pm:
Nauseating

- Jeepster - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:48 pm:
Scorched

- Kasich Walker, Jr. - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:48 pm:
Hold it — “Quinnochio” stays, but “Raunojevich” gets bounced?

Maybe the latest round of editing hasn’t been done.

- Stones - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:51 pm:
slopfest

- Webster - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:52 pm:
Knucklehead

- Transplant - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:54 pm:
Spendy

- Springfield's The Avengers - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:54 pm:
[Censored].

- Economic Justice - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:55 pm:
Contumely — insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.

- Buzzie - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:56 pm:
barf

- SO IL M - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:56 pm:
Disheartening

- Carl Nyberg - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:57 pm:
shopworn

- nw il democrat - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:58 pm:
uninspiring

- Team Sleep - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:58 pm:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:58 pm:
Consultants

- Team Sleep - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:59 pm:
Snoogans

- Alljumps - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:00 pm:
Sigh

- One of the 35 - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:00 pm:
Hopeless

- Mighty M. Mouse - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:00 pm:
Deceptive

- Yellow Dog Democrat - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:01 pm:
Pong

- Robert the Bruce - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:01 pm:
Mud

- That Driver - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:02 pm:
For me, I’m going to have to go way back, but in one word…

Keyless

- John A Logan - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:05 pm:
Beautiful

- Soccermom - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:05 pm:
Blergh

- Jack Handy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:06 pm:
Scripted

- LakeviewJ - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:07 pm:
Shaken.

- Mcleaniac - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:07 pm:
Expensive

- MIMI - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:08 pm:
deceptive

- garlic bread - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:09 pm:
Griffin

- Tommydanger - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:09 pm:
Depressing

- Cindy Lou - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:10 pm:
*yawn*

- Anonymoiis - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:11 pm:
Typical

- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:13 pm:
Grim(m)

- DCSouth - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:15 pm:
hopeless

- Sine Die - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:15 pm:
scripted

- Secret Squirrel - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:17 pm:
egregious

- Willie Stark - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:18 pm:
Dispiriting

- DuPage Dave - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:19 pm:
Tiresome

- Big Ern McCracken - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:20 pm:
McKinney

- Big Ern McCracken - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:20 pm:
Cha-Ching

- Stuff Happens - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:21 pm:
dactylion

- Anyonymous77 - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:22 pm:
Embarrassing.

- Reality Check - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:22 pm:
Ulcerous

- 3rd Generation Chicago Native - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:24 pm:
Enough

- WhoKnew - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:24 pm:
inefficient

- Product of the 60's - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:24 pm:
Non-perfoming

- WhoKnew - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:26 pm:
Entitled!

- Uptown Progressive - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:28 pm:
Democracy

- Joe M - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:28 pm:
Desparate

- Southwest Cook - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:31 pm:
Insufferable

- ste_with a v_en - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:31 pm:
Typical

- Joe M - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:32 pm:
No, I didn’t misspell desperate. Such things as facts, correct spellings, truth, are not part of this election. Anything goes. Desparate

- Earnest - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:33 pm:
Costly

- corvax - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:33 pm:
Entertaining

- Casual Observer - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:36 pm:
Challenged. (A prediction)

- Wensicia - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:38 pm:
Gazillionaire!

- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:38 pm:
reality

- JS Mill - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:39 pm:
Over

- btowntruth - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:39 pm:
Money.

- BetrayalGOP - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:40 pm:
“Pro-Abortion”

- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:41 pm:
unlike

- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:43 pm:
Turnout

- bored now - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:47 pm:
safe…

- door gunner - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:48 pm:
harmful

- PolPal56 - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:50 pm:
De rigueur

- garlic bread - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:51 pm:
‘burbs

- circular firing squad - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:52 pm:
Mckinneyied

- Pete Granata - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:53 pm:
Hegelian

- Tsavo - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:53 pm:
manure

- redleg - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:54 pm:
Same

- Left Leaner - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:56 pm:
Classic

- SamHall - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:57 pm:
Gardyloo– from O.E.D.

- Big Red - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:58 pm:
Odorous

- Farker - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 4:59 pm:
Plutocracy

- MrJM - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:00 pm:
Anti-

– MrJM

- Jane - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:01 pm:
unmotivating

- ? of my day - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:07 pm:
inside

- Enviro - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:07 pm:
Ultraexpensive

- Biker - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:08 pm:
Illuminating

- OutSider - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:09 pm:
Disgusting

- Ghost - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:10 pm:
Oscar

- Anonymous - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:10 pm:
Letdown

- SallyD - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:11 pm:
EXTREME!

- RoPo Ranger - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:12 pm:
Stressful

- Loop Lady - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:12 pm:
Nastiest

- Slugger - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:13 pm:
Snarky

- Mouthy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:17 pm:
repeat

- drew - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:21 pm:
demoralizing

- Wordslinger - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:21 pm:
Cheezy

- walker - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:26 pm:
juvenile

- Ron Burgundy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:27 pm:
Non-scrumtrulescent

- walker - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:27 pm:
American

- Bruce (no, not that one) - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:29 pm:
OVER!!!!!!!!

- walker - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:34 pm:
Golden!

- walker - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:35 pm:
Blagovian!

- FormerParatrooper - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:40 pm:
Choiceless

- Finally Out (formerly Ready to Get Out) - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:54 pm:
Trying

- Samurai - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:58 pm:
Manure

- Ducky LaMoore - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 6:01 pm:
Hackneyed

- Jake From Elwood - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 6:04 pm:
Waterloo

- Belle - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 6:10 pm:
Pathetic

- Archiesmom - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 6:12 pm:
Inaugural

- Archiesmom - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 6:12 pm:
Cynical

- Samurai - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 6:17 pm:
Bologna

- Ginhouse Tommy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 6:30 pm:
Endless

- Mister M - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 6:38 pm:
obfuscating

- MrJM - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 6:40 pm:
Bungled.

– MrJM

- Union Leader - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 6:44 pm:
Blech

- Just the Way It Is One - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 7:11 pm:
Spellbinding.

- Dem 2014 - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 7:24 pm:
Hell

- Anonsense - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 7:31 pm:
Theatre.

Timbuk3 wrote a song about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbT1PJsTVkU

And at the risk of being banned for life, Timbuk3 had a song about a parade that sums it up pretty well too.

- dupage dan - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 7:42 pm:
Agita

- Cheswick - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 7:43 pm:
Cacaphonous.

- heyppanda - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 7:49 pm:
Interminable.

- Amalia - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 7:56 pm:
Prolefeed (see 1984)

- West Side the Best Side - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 8:03 pm:
Gobsmacked

- Jay Dee - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 8:07 pm:
Tedious

- zatoichi - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 8:09 pm:
Flounder

- Just Me - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 8:25 pm:
Disappointing.

(Instead of a debate on real issues, we once again got a debate on fake issues that don’t matter.)

- VanillaMan - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 8:28 pm:
Unethical

- Ron Burgundy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 8:36 pm:
Wharrgarbl

- A. Nonymous - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 8:50 pm:
Carhartt

- LA - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 9:12 pm:
Ignorance

- Everett D. - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 9:36 pm:
Unstatesmanlike..

- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 9:54 pm:
Written-in.

- East Central Illinois - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 9:55 pm:
Armegeddon

- RNUG - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 10:03 pm:
Doomed

- NW Suburbs Joe - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 10:04 pm:
Imbroglio

- NW Suburbs Joe - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 10:05 pm:
My second choice was “miasma”

- Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 10:07 pm:
Governor?

- jimbo2 - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 10:09 pm:
Tossup

- RNUG - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 10:09 pm:
unreasonableness

- Ghost - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 10:11 pm:
bombastic

- RNUG - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 10:12 pm:
On Rauner’s part:

sangfroid

On Quinn’s part:

ineffectualness

- RNUG - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 10:14 pm:
indefensible

- RNUG - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 10:23 pm:
Waterloo

Purgatory

Folly

- Filmmaker Professor - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 11:12 pm:
Profitable! (for TV stations)

- Some Guy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 11:15 pm:
Horrifying

- DuPage Bard - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 11:20 pm:
Awesome!

- Rich Miller - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 11:23 pm:
Undervoting

- Harold's Left-wing Dinner - Tuesday, Nov 4, 14 @ 12:01 am:
Moldering

- LaFlare1017 - Tuesday, Nov 4, 14 @ 12:07 am:
Girthy

- Mighty M. Mouse - Tuesday, Nov 4, 14 @ 12:46 am:
Psychopath / Sociopath

They mean the same thing.

- Enviro - Tuesday, Nov 4, 14 @ 12:35 pm:
Terminating

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