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Shimkus has heart surgery
Tuesday, Mar 22, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller Respublica reports, and it’s confirmed, that Illinois Congressman John Shimkus underwent heart surgery today. …to repair a condition called “severe mitral valve regurgitation”. He is presently recovering in a St. Louis hospital and is expected to remain there for several days after which he will spend the rest of the Easter Congressional recess at home. A close friend of the Congressman said he was doing well.
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“Beauty in breakdown”
Tuesday, Mar 22, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller Very, very cool timelapse photography of the dismantling of the Sun-Times building. Set to music, even. Soon to be everywhere. (thanks to Paul for the heads up)
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Question of the day
Tuesday, Mar 22, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller The governor’s generic re-elect numbers are not good at all. I’ve seen worse, but if anybody over there is predicting victory they’re more full of hubris than would be advisable. From the Topinka poll: “Do you think Rod Blagojevich has performed his job as governor well enough to deserve re-election, or do you think it’s time to give a new person a chance?”
And the crosstabs:
Discuss.
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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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