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This is probably not what the site administrators had in mind when they posted the poll:

Click on the graphic to add your own two cents.

posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Jan 13, 05 @ 4:50 pm

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It’s neck and neck in liberal Champaign Urbana

Current WDWS/WHMS Online Poll.

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Should Governor Blagojevich sign or veto the gay rights bill?
January 12, 2005

From a total of 440 votes cast:

Sign it 49%

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Veto it 51%

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Figures may not add up to exactly 100% because of rounding.

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Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Jan 13, 05 @ 7:24 pm
Let’s not forget that C-U may be liberal, but the News-Gazette is not nor are it’s readers. This is the same paper that gave Rick Winkel $10,000 in his 1994 run to defeat Laurel Prussing, and the rapidly growing suburb of Mahomet is a dry community dominated by social conservatives. Remember too that while UIUC is a university, as a predominantly engineering and agriculture campus, it is hardly a hotbed of social liberalism. After all, they’ve still got The Chief.

That said, what was the Illinois Leader thinking? Embarrassing.

Comment by Anonymous Friday, Jan 14, 05 @ 10:37 am
Exactly right about C-U. WDWS (owned by the above-mentioned News-Gazette) is the only local station for right-wing talk radio buffs, and its listening audience skews pretty conservative. Both Champaign and Urbana have had local ordinances prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation since the 1970s, so the radio poll certainly doesn’t reflect C-U voters over the past few decades.

I haven’t read The Leader in awhile, but I used to read it pretty regularly. I always found them surprisingly ambiguous on issues surrounding gay rights. Their articles on the subject always seemed tongue-in-cheek to me. They clearly see themselves as conservatives’ conservatives, but I always wondered if they weren’t quietly advocating a Log Cabin Republicanism. That might sound crazy to people more “in the know”, but it’s something I’ve wondered about for awhile. Am I totally off-base on that one?

Comment by Anonymous Friday, Jan 14, 05 @ 12:32 pm
Yes, you are.

Comment by Anonymous Friday, Jan 14, 05 @ 12:34 pm