New poll has no surprises, produces no results
A looong meeting between Illinois GOP Chairman Andy McKenna and the five candidates for governor produced almost no results. Only Bill Brady and Judy Topinka agreed to abide by a good conduct code. And nobody was impressed that Topinka was beating them like a mule in the party's poll.
A GOP poll shows Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka with a commanding lead over her four potential Republican rivals, but the findings failed to nudge any of them from the race Friday.
In a bid to cull the herd of Republican gubernatorial wannabes, senior GOP leaders met privately in Chicago with the candidates and presented results of a party-commissioned poll, which had Topinka leading dairy magnate James Oberweis by a 39- to 12-percent margin.
The statewide survey of 400 voters taken Tuesday and Wednesday also found Topinka to be the only Republican in the field ahead of Gov. Blagojevich in a face-to-face matchup, leading by a 39- to 35-percent margin.
Buoyed by those results, Topinka has narrowed her search for a running mate to Rep. Jim Watson (R-Jacksonville) and Doug Whitley, head of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce and member of former Gov. Jim Edgar's Cabinet.
After Topinka and Oberweis, other Republicans trailed far behind. The survey showed Sen. Steve Rauschenberger (R-Elgin) with 6 percent, businessman Ron Gidwitz with 3.5 percent and Sen. Bill Brady (R-Bloomington) with 3 percent.
7 comments:
Let's see... 39+12+6+3.5+3= 64.5%?!?!
Where's the other 35.5%? These numbers seem to be a little low for all the other candidates and high for JBT.
Just another poll by the JBT Led-Republican Party.
The midgets (Rauschenberger, Gidwitz & Brady) are polling at 12.5 % and Oberweis is just behind at a whopping 12%. This is histerical!
Yes, Gidwitz has spent a ton of money...$ 1 MILLION PER POINT. Keep spending Ron!
Brady seems like a normal guy who just likes to pray. He should rethink this and live to fight another day.
Rauschenberger is going to go down in a blaze of glory and Proft is making him look like an idiot and Obie can't find which side of his mouth he would like to talk out of!
Ahhh,the reformers! Get a clue boys.
My dear white men:
We all know you have Kohones, but do have enough Koruna to increase your NAME ID to attain parity with JBT. You can't fight on the issues unless voters know who you are.
If you do, game on.
If not, um, we'll, gee, maybe, gosh, I don't know, have you thought about, you know, going back to your day job?
Mr. Watson had better stay at home on this one. I'm not sure if he understands what he is getting himself into. You step into the ring with the big boys, anything goes. Everything that he has ever done, or said will be under the microscope and used against him.
Everything from house votes to Routt High School beer parties.
Judy's people didn't waste any time getting this poll out. I think that Mr.Brady's poll knocked them off balance a bit.
None of the candidates should drop out or take it easy on Judy.
Bruno! I hear you! Walking parades and such, I hear Anybody but Rod! That's not necessarily the way I see it.... I see it... ANYBODY but a liberal!!! Yep, that includes Topinkevich and Blagojevich!
In the SJR, Watson sounded like he wasn't going to run. Shame on JBT for sidestepping Poe. What a smack in the face that must be to him.
Poe! Listen to me, lose Topinka and jump on with Oberweis. Don't even worry about Topinka.. she's too liberal for you and everyone else! Imagine "Oberweis Icecream and Poe BBQ's"!!
I am voting Oberweis-Poe in 2006!!
Isn't it all about name recognition? Blago has a lot of name recognition, and people don't usually have a warm reaction when they hear his name. More like a retching type reaction.
BTW. Doesn't anybody think there will be any anti-Rod commercials aired during this campaign? Don't you think those adds may turn off a few of the people left who may vote for Hot Rod, our spotless Commander-in-Chief?
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