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Incumbent secretary of state yet unchallenged in Illinois
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| News Date | Sunday, August 9, 2009 04:25:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Incumbent secretary of state yet unchallenged in Illinois
Mike Riopell | Posted: Saturday, August 8, 2009 10:25 pm | No Comments Posted
SPRINGFIELD - As Republicans line up to take shots at Illinois' highest offices in 2010, Democratic Secretary of State Jesse White is without a challenger so far.
A half-dozen Republicans have already announced their plans to run for governor, and challengers for many of the other statewide races are already lining up, hoping to chip away at the Democratic hold on state government.
Democrats will have to fight off the image of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and accusations they caused years of turmoil in Springfield while in control.
But after comfortable wins in his last two elections, White, who has said he wants to run again, remains without a Republican opponent.
White isn't alone in facing no known challenge thus far.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan lost a Republican opponent last week as well, after DuPage County State's Attorney Joe Birkett said beating the two-term Democrat could be difficult.
"It has become clear to my advisers and me that it will be virtually impossible to compete financially with Lisa Madigan," Birkett said in a statement. "It would be wrong for me to run and to ask people to contribute to a race that is virtually unwinnable under the circumstances."
Observers say the same could be true about a race against White, who in 2006 got almost twice as many votes as his opponent, state Sen. Dan Rutherford. And in 2002, White won every county in Illinois.
"They've got some problems, it seems to me, with recruiting against those two," said John Jackson, a political scientist with the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University.
Politicians running for any office in 2010 could begin collecting nominating signatures this week in an effort to get their names on February primary ballots. They don't have to officially file their candidacies until the fall.
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