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[IL] Suburb shift turns state blue
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Jul 17, 2004 03:50am |
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| Category | News |
| News Date | Friday, July 16, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Christian Science Monitor article.
An excerpt..."While there's no archetypal Illinois voter, Kranz's political journey is in some ways emblematic of the direction his state has gone. For decades, it was the classic swing state, voting for the winning presidential candidate 22 of 25 times in the 20th century. It went for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford. From 1976 to 2002, Democratic mayors in Chicago were balanced by GOP governors in Springfield.
But lately, the state has grown steadily more Democratic and is no longer considered in contention in presidential politics. Voters went for Al Gore over George Bush by a surprising 12-point margin in 2000. Now, it's just one more US state that has left the middle ground, the Midwest's lone blue state in a Thomas Hart Benton landscape of purple and red." |
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