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| Webster | Mar 20 2018, 08:16 PM Post #1 |
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![]() (Daily Kos) Polls close at 8 PM ET (7 PM local time) for primary night in Illinois. We have plenty of exciting races to watch, and our guide to the key contests can be found here. The main event will be the race for governor, where Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner is trying to fend off a far-right challenge from state Rep. Jeanne Ives, and where three major Democrats (J.B. Pritzker, Chris Kennedy, and Daniel Biss) are competing to face him. There are also a number of competitive House primaries including in the 3rd District, where Blue Dog Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski is facing his first serious challenge in a decade from businesswoman Marie Newman. It only takes a simple plurality to win nomination in Illinois. We’ll also be covering the returns closely on Twitter.[/quote] |
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| Webster | Mar 20 2018, 10:10 PM Post #31 |
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(Daily Kos) IL-03 (D): We’ve now jumped to 81% reporting, and Lipinski’s lead is just 51-49. This is looking painfully close. |
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| Webster | Mar 20 2018, 10:11 PM Post #32 |
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--39% of #IL13 Dem primary to take on Rodney Davis in, and Dirksen Londrigan up 43-22. David Gil, the perennial candidate who narrowly lost to Davis in 2012, at just 12% in 4th place (Daily Kos Elections, 20 March 2018) --60% in #ILGOV and Rauner leads Ives 52-48 still. DuPage about 10% in, he's leading her by same margin there (Daily Kos Elections, 20 March 2018) |
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| Webster | Mar 20 2018, 10:17 PM Post #33 |
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(Daily Kos) IL-03 (D): There appears to be a major discrepancy between the AP and the county elections board with Marie Newman's vote total in Will County. The AP says Newman won 7,112 votes with 95 percent of precincts reporting, but the county says it's just 4,112 votes with the same number of precincts in. That difference is enough to determine which candidate leads. Right now, the AP has Newman up 51-49, but if Will County is correct, then Lipinski would be ahead. |
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| Webster | Mar 20 2018, 10:20 PM Post #34 |
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(Daily Kos)IL-03 (D): The AP seems to have caught the error and has Lipinski back up 51-49 with 87% reporting. |
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| Webster | Mar 20 2018, 10:22 PM Post #35 |
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--Reports out of DuPage County indicate DuPage Election Commission is suffering from hardware problems and counting may not be complete tonight. Jake Griffin, Illinois Daily Herald - 20 March 2018) |
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| Webster | Mar 20 2018, 10:27 PM Post #36 |
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--Now corrected: Rep. Dan Lipinski (D) still leads Marie Newman (D) by 1.8% w/ 87% reporting. Newman now needs something close to a miracle. #IL03 (Dave Wasserman, Cook Political Report - 20 March 2018) --Maybe DuPage elections would be in faster if they didn't need to drive their hard drives to Atlanta... sorry, #GA06 flashbacks (Daily Kos Elections, 20 March 2018) |
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| Webster | Mar 20 2018, 10:31 PM Post #37 |
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--31% in #IL06 Dem primary to take on Roskam, and Mazeski leading Casten 29-25. DuPage mostly out, and if it's good for Casten, it could mean a big swing to him (Daily Kos Elections, 20 march 2018) |
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| Webster | Mar 20 2018, 10:33 PM Post #38 |
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--72% in and Pat Quinn isn't QUITE done. Trails Raoul 31-27 in Dem primary for attorney general (Daily Kos Elections, 20 March 2018) |
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| Webster | Mar 20 2018, 10:35 PM Post #39 |
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(Daily Kos) IL-03 (D): The NYT seems to be a bit ahead of the AP (though the former uses the latter’s data) and has Lipinski still up 51-49 with 90% reporting. Barring a very unlikely late surge, Newman will not be able to pull this one out. |
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| Webster | Mar 20 2018, 10:39 PM Post #40 |
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--70% in #IL13 Dem primary to take on Rodney Davis, and it looks set. Dirksen Londrigan, who was backed by EMILY's List and Dick Durbin, up 45-23 (Daily Kos Elections, 20 March 2018) --66% in #IL14 Dem primary to take on Randy Hultgren and Underwood up 58-14. She had EMILY backing for 49-45 Trump seat (Daily Kos Elections, 20 March 2018) |
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| Webster | Mar 20 2018, 10:49 PM Post #41 |
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--From politico: Anecdotal reports suggest weak, unenthusiastic Republican voter turnout, which could explain why Rauner seemed especially unnerved by the DGA’s ploy to steer conservatives toward Ives. The conventional thinking is that if fewer than 550,000 Republicans turn out statewide, Ives can pull off an upset, given that it’s the true party-line voters who get to the polls. Here’s one snapshot: In solidly Republican McHenry County, just 2,550 GOP voters pulled ballots, which is down from 2014. Democrats in the same county, meanwhile, have tripled their early turnout from four years ago to 2,430. Turnout looks to be 650,000 for Republicans and 1.3 million for Democrats. (Daily Kos user mastergardener2k, 20 March 2018) |
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| Webster | Mar 20 2018, 10:52 PM Post #42 |
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(Daily Kos) IL-04 (D): With 89% reporting, the AP has called this race for Chuy Garcia. At a 66-22 spread, he won a dominant victory over his closest competitor, Sol Flores. |
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| Webster | Mar 20 2018, 11:00 PM Post #43 |
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--AP doesn't just mess up Will County: Went from 99 DuPage precincts reporting to just 30. Glitches like this happen a lot, but super frustrating (Daily Kos Elections, 20 March 2018) |
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| Webster | Mar 20 2018, 11:02 PM Post #44 |
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--What’s happening in DuPage… Technical judge from one of the precincts here. Here’s what’s going down. There’s a thing called an Ender Card — a paper card, kind of like a ballot but a little bit smaller — that you feed into the optical scan tabulator at the end of the election that tells the machine “the election is over, now start printing the results”. This election, those cards were manufactured too thick, and the machines wouldn’t read them. What does this mean for counting? 1) We couldn’t print any results from the optical scan tabulators (which is most of the votes) in the precincts tonight. 2) We were finally instructed (kind of Plan C, after Plan B) to just bring back the whole machine with the memory card still inside. So it’s probably going to take the election commission a while to figure out what the hell to do to tabulate the results while maintaining audit trail. What you’re seeing so far is basically just the early vote and probably some absentees (vote by mail). (Daily Kos user jsand42, 20 march 2018) |
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| Webster | Mar 20 2018, 11:04 PM Post #45 |
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--Illinois State House: IL-HD82: Jim Durkin (R) holds off a challenge from Mickey Straub (R). IL-HD93: Norine Hammond (R) holds off a challenge from Joshua Griffith (R). IL-HD108: Charlie Meier (R) turns back a challenge from Don Moore (R) bigly. IL-HD112: It appears that the vile Dwight Kay (R) will face off against Katie Stuart (D) in November i a bid to get his seat back. IL-HD115: Terri Bryant (R) holds off a challenge from Paul Jacobs (R). IL-HD118: Patrick Windhorst (R) will face off against the appointed Nathan Phelps Finnie (D). Illinois State Senate: IL-SD54: 2010 Lt. Gov ticketmate and 2012 GOP IL-12 nominee Jason Plummer (R) will take the retiring Kyle McCarter (R)’s seat. IL-SD57: It appears that the far-right racist radio jock Bob Romanik (R) will go down in flames to Tanya Hildenbrand. (Daily Kos user JGibson, 20 March 2018) |
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