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| Contributor | Imperator |
| Last Edited | Imperator Nov 04, 2012 09:28am |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Author | John Kass |
| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Tribune |
| News Date | Sunday, November 4, 2012 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | My fellow taxpaying chumbolones. With only days before Tuesday's election — between a big-government Republican and a big-big-big-really-big-government Democrat — why don't we wrap things up?
The dog that didn't bark
Can President Barack Obama lose the popular vote to Mitt Romney on Tuesday and still be re-elected?
Of course. If Obama does well enough in the so-called battleground states, particularly Ohio and Virginia, he could very well win the 270 Electoral College votes he needs.
If this happens, Republican activists will tear out their hair and shriek with rage. They'll argue that the Electoral College system is an antiquated affair giving too much power to just a few battleground states, where the ground was poisoned by Team Obama's intensely negative campaigning early on.
But the Democrats will shake their heads and say something like, "Well, the rules are the rules."
With all those loud sounds coming from the presidential campaigns, sometimes it is important to concentrate on what you don't hear. Such as when the famous detective realized that no one heard the barking dog.
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The relative merits of the Democratic candidates for the Illinois House don't matter. What matters is that Madigan drew their district boundaries and contributes to their campaigns from the vast war chests he controls. What he expects in return is this: To be reinstalled as speaker, as he has been for most of the past three decades, so he can control the state.
He's so intent on this that he's even made a deal with the politicos of Melrose Park to oust state Rep. Angelo "Skip" Saviano and install a Democrat. Just what the boys from Melrose Park expect from Madigan in return for their turning on Saviano, we don't know.
But I do know this. If you vote for a Democrat for state representative, any Democrat, good or bad, all you're really doing is voting for Mike Madigan to remain the boss. |
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