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[IL-6] Race for Hyde's seat in Congress heats up
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Sep 07, 2006 06:28pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Tribune |
| News Date | Friday, September 8, 2006 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The intensity is bound to increase when the TV-ad campaign starts
By John Biemer
Tribune staff reporter
Published September 7, 2006
Conventional political wisdom suggests that most voters don't pay much attention to campaigns until the fall, but that hasn't stopped the two candidates vying to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde in the 6th Congressional District from already giving constituents an earful.
Democrat Tammy Duckworth has revved up the robocalls, leaving recorded messages for voters about her support of embryonic stem cell research and her opponent Peter Roskam's opposition to it. Republicans have been jamming mailboxes for Roskam, hammering Duckworth on taxes and immigration.
The intensity will only increase as the campaigns spend millions of dollars rolling out television ads, VIP fundraising appearances, phone calls, mailers and lawn signs, trying to find any advantage in one of most hotly contested congressional campaigns in the country.
Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran from Hoffman Estates, has the Republicans "worried," said David Goldberg, an assistant professor of political science at the College of DuPage, but internal polls suggest that Roskam, a state senator from Wheaton who is the GOP floor leader, is slightly ahead. |
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