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| Republican Candidates Think They Can Win |
In the Republican primary for governor, the candidates raise the question, who can win?
For the last decade, winning the Republican primary was all that mattered, and the battered nominee for statewide office would go on to lose in November. In fact, in 13 statewide elections over the last 10 years, Republicans won only one (Judy Baar Topinka for treasurer in 2002). If you throw in three elections for president, Democrats are 15 out of 16 in statewide elections since 2000.
This time, the candidates have November in their sights.
* Jim Ryan says he can win, having been twice elected attorney general in the 1990s. "Of all the offices in state government, after governor the most substantive, complex office is that of attorney general," he says. "The voters hade enough trust to elect me twice to statewide office."
* Bob Schillerstrom, the DuPage County Board chairman, says he is strong on money issues, but he doesn't scare away moderate and liberal voters with hard-core conservative positions on social issues.
* State Sen. Kirk Dillard (R-Hinsdale) looks at ethics, and says some of the other candidates will have vulnerabilities in the general election, saying that State Sen. Bill Brady (R-Bloomington) awarded a legislative scholarship to the University of Illinois Medical School to the child of a campaign contributor, and that Jim Ryan is close friends with pay-to-play schemer Stu Levine. Dillard says he can withstand ethical scrutiny.
(Illinois Radio Network) |
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