Wisconsin Gets Invaded - From Illinois

This is one of my leftover thoughts from yesterday, but since there is a news piece about the candidates going to Wisconsin today, this seems as good a time as any for it.

I have several nieces living in Illinois, and I'm in fairly regular contact with one of them. Let me tell you, she's pissed! And she's not the only one.

Anyone from that State, or has looked at it's voting patterns recently, will readily see that, while the City of Chicago is solidly bought and paid for by the Daley family business, the suburbs and the rest of the State are pretty solidly Republican.

Yet neither candidate, not any of their surrogates, deign to stump there. Many Illinois residents have been invading their Northern Neighbor in the hope of hearing and seeing the two candidates for themselves.

I know that there is limited time in a campaign to get to all the places they mark as "possible", but if Illinois is any indication, they're really pissing some folks off. When Hizzoner, Richard J Daley rigged the election for JFK, the vote was still tight enough to make a frog's ass pucker. This year could be just as tight, yet both sides have written it off as "Democrat".

With a minimum of effort, Kerry could get a nasty surprise there.