Counties don’t vote
Wednesday, Nov 7, 2018 - Posted by Rich Miller * JB Pritzker came out of Cook County with about a 776,000-vote margin. He won the state by 640,660, but he also won these counties…
Pat Quinn, you will recall, won only Cook County four years ago. Pritzker came up 77 votes short of winning Winnebago and lost by 92 votes in Pulaski, 1,700 votes in LaSalle and about 2,600 votes in Sangamon. Discuss. * Related…
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- Charlie Wheeler - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 3:36 am:
Point of information
Based on 2017 Census Bureau estimates, only 25 of Illinois’ 102 counties have more residents than an average Chicago ward.
Charlie Wheeler
- Blue Dog Dem - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 5:32 am:
Kinda thought my vote for McCann might have put him over the top.
- Grandson of Man - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 6:06 am:
Rauner’s hubris did him in. If only he worked with Madigan and accepted offers of compromise. If only he made allies in the GA and cornered/isolated Madigan. If he only listened to smart people like Edgar and worked with those he needed instead of demonizing them. If he only listened to AFSCME and negotiated a contract with modest concessions that don’t ravage state workers while saving money for taxpayers.
- Matts - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 6:45 am:
“If only…..”. Yes, If only he wasn’t himself. His personality was on full display for 4 years. All his faults have been noted and underlined on this blog, and were essentially on target. Rauner beat Rauner. His personality is fit to be a vulture capitalist. His hubris caused him to step out of his element and into a gigantic pile of poo. He deserves the drubbing he got.
- lostintranslation - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 7:23 am:
Karma caught up with the County Clerk in Lake, DuPage and Champaign. Lake and DuPage were defeated and in Champaign the Clerk ran for County Executive and lost.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 8:00 am:
First,
Charlie Wheeler is the best. Always great when he drops in.
The dismantling of the Raunerite version of the state GOP L, along with Trump alienating suburban folks… a great deal was Rauner and Trump being awful.
For me…
You have a candidate 15-18 points under water, and lost by 15+ points… you’d have to begin to see a bleeding outside “Cook County only”
For the love of Pete, even Ives going 48%… and with HB40, and labor strife… inroads began by Rauner being Rauner.
Still gotta close, and that happened. When you have a field op, you can reap these type of wins.
- cdog - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 8:06 am:
Lets hope incrementalism and respect for opposing opinions comes back into style.
Rauner was short-sighted, shallow, and obviously clueless to the realities of how politics really works.
Good riddance.
- illinois manufacturer - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 8:16 am:
Urban v rural
- wordslinger - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 8:23 am:
Pritzker’s 2.3 million votes is the most for a gubernatorial candidate since the move to mid-term elections in 1978.
Since then, no other candidate has broken 2 million. Edgar got closest in 1994 at 1.98 million.
Nearly 4.3 million votes were cast in the governor’s race. That is also the most since the move to mid-terms.
The next highest total was 3.6 million in the 1982 Thompson/Stevenson race.
That Pritzker GOTV worked pretty good, I’d say. I guess everyone hasn’t left the state.
- Honeybadger - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 8:24 am:
Something worth noting, the Will County Clerk race was won by Lauren Staley-Ferry, the first time a Demcorat has won that office in close to 80 years.
- Anon324 - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 8:46 am:
Politico’s map shows “Other” winning Pike County. On closer examination, they are adding McCann and Winderweedle votes together. That said, McCann only lost by 98 votes. Anybody have any insight into the strong showing there?
- Dog on Sheffield - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 8:56 am:
The result of a state-wide ground game; the campaign never intended to rely on just Chicago.
- Grandson of Man - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 8:59 am:
Rauner’s role model Scott Walker also lost.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 9:02 am:
===… the campaign never intended to rely on just Chicago.===
Well if the did rely only on Chicago, opening all those offices in the state woulda just seemed silly, lol
- Doing Human Things - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 9:04 am:
> illinois manufacturer
“Urban v rural”
Somewhat, yes…but JB won Knox, Fulton, and Alexander counties too. Those three are pretty darn rural.
- wordslinger - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 9:08 am:
Pardon, should read “Pritzker’s 2.3 million votes are the most for a gubernatorial candidate since the move to mid-term elections in 1978.”
- Vote Quimby - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 9:11 am:
Still absorbing the fact Rauner won Sangamon County…
- Give Me A Break - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 9:36 am:
“Still absorbing the fact Rauner won Sangamon County… ”
Sangamon County voters are really something, they will vote for a guy who all but gutted their jobs and tried to bust their union but they keep voting for the GOP. They can’t help themselves I guess.
- wordslinger - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 9:44 am:
Counties don’t vote, but GOP statewide candidates need to figure out some way to win back suburban voters.
Harold was the only GOP statewide to break 40% yesterday. That’s truly shocking.
- Northsider - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 9:48 am:
Urban/Suburban vs. Rural.
- Suburban Mom - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 11:50 am:
speaking of counties, do we get an update on the shenanigans in Saline County?
- Nick Name - Wednesday, Nov 7, 18 @ 3:02 pm:
I know Sangamon County is heavily Republican, but that it went with Rauner utterly astonishes me.