* Wirepoints…

Crime is perhaps the top issue for Illinois voters this year and the extraordinarily divisive SAFE-T Act is central to it.

Nope. Not even close.

That piece was published today - a day after WGN released its poll…

But despite Bailey’s efforts, and an onslaught of political ads paid for by Dan Proft’s “People Who Play By the Rules” PAC, Illinois likely voters say the economy is still the No. 1 issue (35%) driving their vote in November, followed by threats to democracy (17%) and abortion access (14%).

Crime is fourth on that list, with only 10% of voters picking the issue as their top concern. Of that group, the advantage does go to Bailey. About 58% of those who say crime is their top issue support his campaign.

* Speaking of that poll…

Bailey campaign spokesman reacts to WGN-TV/The Hill/Emerson College Poll showing his candidate down by 15 points. pic.twitter.com/vpaZJZ9IiJ

— Tahman Bradley (@tahmanbradley) September 28, 2022

That 2022 primary poll was taken in May, before Bailey started surging. Polls can’t predict the future, they can only give you a snapshot of the time they were taken.

The Quinn poll was taken for the Tribune, not WGN. Another poll taken for the Trib in late October had Quinn behind by 2.

I don’t know what other independent polls are out there, but that internal poll that Fox 32 ridiculously hyped was a push poll and Bailey was still trailing.

* One more…

WGN poll on the IL Gov race is crap and so is the reporting on it. For example, on the slides from the pollster they have Pritzker fav/unfav at 54-40. In the actual story, they report his fav/unfav as 45-41. Which is it? Another media poll used to try and drive a desired outcome.

— Dan Proft (@DanProft) September 29, 2022

The simple explanation is that the story has an error. It doesn’t match up with the actual poll results. And, excuse me, but how does it hurt Bailey that WGN screwed up a story that more people saw than will see its accurate tweet?

That being said, I do have one issue with the poll and I told subscribers about it today.