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IL-Senate Campaign Fri Jan 01 2010
Silver Projects Alexi Slightly Ahead
Nate Silver, statistician extraordinaire and a former Chicago resident, posted his Senate Rankings, December 2009 Edition. On Illinois he had this to say:
11. Illinois (D-Burris) -- Rasmussen actually shows a tiny bit of momentum toward the Democrat Giannoulias. Mark Kirk is in a somewhat awkward position; he was elected repeatedly in Democratic-leaning IL-10 by running unashamedly as a moderate, but that's not where the GOP zeitgeist is this year and he's accumulated a more conservative voting record. I don't care how bad the national environment is -- I'm not sure you can win by reflexively opposing Barack Obama's agenda in Barack Obama's home state.
