Kerry Surging in Illinois 51% to 37% (Obama internal poll)

[Iceburg]

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has just been named to a top Democratic National Committee position by Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry bla bla bal bla bla ..
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Kerry surging in Illinois

A statewide poll taken for Illinois Democratic Senate hopeful Barack Obama pegs Kerry at 51 percent compared to 37 percent for Bush.

The internals in the poll are interesting: While women generally favor Kerry over Bush (53 percent for Kerry, 34 percent for Bush), the big divide comes between married and single females. Some 60 percent of single women would vote for Kerry; 26 percent for Bush.
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/sweet/cst-edt-sweet22.html

[slinkerwink]

1. great news!

[Joanne98]

2. The married women do what they're told. Aye Aye sir.

what a bunch of traitors.

[madrchsod]

4. there`s alot of men

who do what they are told, why else would they vote for a wimp?

[seabeyond]

8. no joanne i dont see

that is what it is. and unless we understand we wont find the answers,. they are raising children, they have different interests. now i am a married and can easily see how bush is retarding the family value issue, i also see the attack on family the last handful of years in moving away from family value and not listening to the parents

you can dismiss them, but it wont heal anything.

[displacedtexan]

3. Kerry is ahead in battleground states.

Shout it far and wide!
Let's make CNN stop lying about the polls!
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=47267

[LynzM]

5. Cool! Can we get some of that...

Over here in Indiana? I'm working on it, but it's tough :D

[madrchsod]

6. Kerry will probably win

in Illinois but it will be close. he will take the urban areas and some counties but the rest will vote for bush,i know all of Northern IL will vote for bush and Ryan,Kerry and obama have to take the collar counties to offset these votes. i`ll never see kerry or obama anywhere near the rest of Northern IL., they have written it off as solid republican

[davsand]

9. Obama had a strategy for the Primary that focused on Chicago area.

Word from his campaign people is that the campaign WILL be focusing on the rest of the state for the General and that Obama will be traveling a lot--he plans to be in all the 102 counties in Illinois.

I saw his downstate campaign coordinator get absolutely roasted in a meeting recently because Obama had NOT spent more time outside Cook and the collar counties. He was quite direct about the fact that the Primary campaign had specifically targeted certain areas of the state and had "ceded" others.

If you look at where Obama won, it WAS centered around Cook, the collar counties and some other misc. counties downstate where there are higher population numbers. Hynes carried most of the counties in Illinois, and Obama needs those counties too if he's gonna beat Ryan.

I'll admit to some relief at hearing that, to be honest. I get tired of the Illinois practice of focusing General election campaigns in Cook.


Laura

[On the Road]

7. Single Women are the New Soccer Moms

at least according to some pollsters, they're one of the key swing demographics this year. That makes it all the better.

[Frances]

10. Good news

I have been depressed because it seems to me that these numbers should be the numbers we are seeing all over the country! But maybe people will start to wake up to Bush's sheer incompetence.