Bill Foster’s campaign has been trying to convince me (and I assume others) to write about his potential congressional bid for the past several days. I’ve been a bit busy with this overtime session, but Lynn Sweet has a piece today about a new poll in the district.

Foster is a wealthy Democrat who claims he will spend a million dollars of his own money on just the primary race to decide which Democrat will replace (or challenge) Congressman Denny Hastert, the former US House Speaker. Hastert is expected to announce soon whether he will run again.

Anyway, Foster’s campaign has a new poll. Sweet has some results…

If Hastert ran again, he starts out ahead — 55 percent according to the poll and with a 63 percent approval rating — decent, but not a landslide. […]

In a “generic” House match-up for November 2008 (a nameless Republican vs. a nameless Democrat), Democrats trump Republicans 40 percent to 30 percent.

Interesting. And check this out…

President Bush’s unfavorables in the district are high — 52 percent compared to 27 percent for Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and 46 percent for Gov. Blagojevich.

Bush’s unfavorables are higher in a Republican district than Blagojevich’s? Wow.

Thoughts?