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GOP lacks Durbin challenger
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Jan 09, 2007 01:18pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - The Herald News |
| News Date | Sunday, January 7, 2007 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The 2008 Senate election may seem far away, but the battered Illinois Republican Party already is running late if it plans to challenge Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin.
No Republicans have stepped forward to say they will run against Durbin, and no one seems to be on the sidelines preparing to jump in.
"This is really becoming a problem for us," said Illinois Senate Minority Leader Frank Watson, R-Greenville.
Although the election is 22 months away, that's not a particularly long time in politics; the deadline to qualify for the ballot is less than a year away.
When Democrats wanted the Senate seat held by Republican Peter Fitzgerald in 2004, three candidates were in the race 26 months ahead of time.
Fitzgerald, who retired rather than run for a second term, is not optimistic about his party's chances against Durbin, with whom he worked and sometimes clashed at the Capitol for six years.
"I think it would take a riverboat gambler for a Republican to run," he said. |
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