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Democrats Take Hastert's Seat

Sunday, March 9, 2008 10:34 AM


CHICAGO -- A Democrat captured on Saturday an Illinois U.S. House of Representatives seat that had been a Republican stronghold, in a symbolic blow to President George W. Bush's party ahead of November elections.

Returns showed physicist and businessman Bill Foster beating dairy owner Jim Oberweis by 52 percent to 48 percent of the vote in the district that had been held by former House Speaker Dennis Hastert for more than two decades.
 
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The take on this election from the Votemaster:

This is a huge defeat for the GOP in a very high profile race that both parties poured over 1 million dollars into and is a very bad omen for the Republicans in the Fall. If they can't even hold a seat they have held for 20+ years in a strongly Republican district against a newbie who knows nothing about politics, what's going to happen in swing districts with stronger candidates? How are they going to beat the large class of Democratic freshmen under these conditions?

To make it worse, many people will see this as a proxy for an Obama-McCain race as the Illinois senator made a TV ad for Foster and Sen. McCain campaigned for Oberweis. At www.intrade.com the bettors think there is only an 8% chance the Republicans will take back the House.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/
 

Red Robin

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I could care less. The republicans in office are closer to thinking like you , than they are like me. I hope they all lose. I just hope the democrats lose worse. At least I'll get half my wish.
 

Goodpasture

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Oldtimer said:
........a strongly Republican district against a newbie who knows nothing about politics.........
That is the key phrase.......the old standards are not going to fly. Americans want new blood in Washington and incumbents of both parties are going to be in trouble........but Republicans more than Democrats, because the entire world knows that it has been the Republican congress that has gone along with whatever dubya said.
 

fff

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Oldtimer said:
The take on this election from the Votemaster:

This is a huge defeat for the GOP in a very high profile race that both parties poured over 1 million dollars into and is a very bad omen for the Republicans in the Fall. If they can't even hold a seat they have held for 20+ years in a strongly Republican district against a newbie who knows nothing about politics, what's going to happen in swing districts with stronger candidates? How are they going to beat the large class of Democratic freshmen under these conditions?

To make it worse, many people will see this as a proxy for an Obama-McCain race as the Illinois senator made a TV ad for Foster and Sen. McCain campaigned for Oberweis. At www.intrade.com the bettors think there is only an 8% chance the Republicans will take back the House.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/

The RNCC doesn't have many $millions to be throwing at a race. They obviously felt like this one was important. And they lost it. (my bold in your text)
 
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fff said:
Oldtimer said:
The take on this election from the Votemaster:

This is a huge defeat for the GOP in a very high profile race that both parties poured over 1 million dollars into and is a very bad omen for the Republicans in the Fall. If they can't even hold a seat they have held for 20+ years in a strongly Republican district against a newbie who knows nothing about politics, what's going to happen in swing districts with stronger candidates? How are they going to beat the large class of Democratic freshmen under these conditions?

To make it worse, many people will see this as a proxy for an Obama-McCain race as the Illinois senator made a TV ad for Foster and Sen. McCain campaigned for Oberweis. At www.intrade.com the bettors think there is only an 8% chance the Republicans will take back the House.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/

The RNCC doesn't have many $millions to be throwing at a race. They obviously felt like this one was important. And they lost it. (my bold in your text)

The Repub party spent 1/5th of its total funds to keep a seat in a Repub District-- AND LOST :shock: :???:

News from the Votemaster
In case you missed the news yesterday, Democrat Bill Foster beat Republican Jim Oberweis for Dennis Hastert's seat in a very special election in IL-14 west of Chicago. The NRCC spent $1.3 million of the $6.4 million it has in the bank to hold a seat they have owned for more than 20 years in a district that is strongly Republican (PVI R+5) and lost to a nuclear physicist who has never run for public office before. Now Foster is a very smart guy, no doubt about that, but he is a newbie to politics. Obama helped Foster and McCain helped Oberweis but this race was in Illinois not Arizona so it is not really Obama vs. McCain, the prequel. Still, many GOP congressmen may be starting to think carefully if this might not be a good time retire voluntarily, rather than involuntarily.
 

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