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Poll follow-up
Monday, Mar 21, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller I’m getting a lot of comments and e-mails from people who say there is no way that Judy Baar Topinka can win a primary. She’s too pro-choice, too hated by the right wing, too connected to the old GOP establishment. I’ll post more results later this week, but these two questions were asked ONLY of respondents who were identified as Republican primary voters.
That second question describes Topinka’s position. That being said, Topinka certainly has a problem with a portion of the Republican base. Check out the crosstabs for the head-to-head with Blagojevich. Topinka is backed by “just” 73 percent of Republicans. However, Blagojevich is backed by a “mere” 80 percent of Democrats. This could simply be a reflection of her lower name ID than the governor’s (84 percent for Topinka versus 98 percent for the guv). Notice also that a higher percentage of Dems are backing Topinka (15) than Repubs backing Blagojevich (11).
When they just tallied the number of respondents who were aware of both candidates, Topinka leads Blagojevich 46 to 43.
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Question of the day
Monday, Mar 21, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller Blogging will be very light this week, as I’m taking a bit of time off. But here’s your question: Read this column and this one, too and tell me what chance Judy Baar Topinka has of beating Rod Blagojevich. UPDATE: The results for Topinka’s probable primary contenders are miserable, by the way. I saw them, but they were redacted out of the final copy I was given. Part of the usual trade-off for getting a story. UPDATE 2: The Southtown inadvertently left my column off the website on Sunday. It’s been moved off the editorial page because of a new deadline system, so that may have had something to do with it. The column is up now, so the above link is changed.
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Weekend way-back blogging
Saturday, Mar 19, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller
Here’s my dad during Christmas in, we think, 1979. We were living in Germany then. Seven of us were crammed into a little government apartment at an American military base in Landstuhl, near the Army hospital, where many of our soldiers who are wounded in Iraq are now flown. The closely confined nature of our existence strongly encouraged finding any possible way to get out of that home. We moved to a house in Siefersheim after school ended 1980, which gave us more room. But because I was heading off to college at the end of the summer, my bed was under the basement stairs. Appropriate. Check out the apron and the sideburns. LOL.
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Man busted for sending threatening e-mail
Saturday, Mar 19, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller An Illinois man has been arrested for allegedly sending a threatening e-mail to Attorney General Lisa Madigan. A Walnut man appeared in Bureau County court Thursday morning, after being arrested by the Illinois State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for threatening a public official. And then there’s this from a different paper: Recovered in the search were two shotguns, eight handguns, two pellet guns, one stun gun and one laser pointer, as well as more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition and a cassette tape with militia information on it.
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PodShanking
Saturday, Mar 19, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller Ever want to move music or other files from one iPod to another? Now you can. It’s called PodShanking, and it’s from the fine folks at ModGods.
Needed: Go check it out. (Via Cool Hunting.)
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