A long season

Written by: Frank Palmer on Nov 15, 2006 1:45 PM EST

Linked to groups: Northside DFA

For the Edgewater-Rogers Park meetup, it was a long season. (These are two adjoining neighborhoods on yhr north side of Chicago.) Since there were no interesting races in our area, we commuted to three races in the suburbs. (Currently, the only elected Republicans we can vote on are the President/VP and the state treasurer; the latter lost.)  We started sometime like June.

We adopted Dan Seals for Congress in the district north of ours,  John Pavich for Congress in teh district which stretches south from Chicago, and Dan Kotowski for state senate from a district north-west of Chicago. Kotowski won as one of the five state-senate changeovers this year. (Only 18 Republican-held seats were up for election; they lost a quarter of them.)

Seals lost, but he got 49.2% of the vote,  in contrast with his predecessor who got 35.9% in '04. This was the largest increase (11.3 points) of  Democratic strength among all the Congressional races in Illinois. Pavich lost with 45.3%; a gain of 4.0 points.

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Location: Chicago, IL 60660