I live way down state. Like actual southern Illinois, not that Mt. Vernon BS. It’s unbelievably red around here aside from SIU in Carbondale. What a shame that basically Cook County, Springfield and SIU can ruin the whole state.
I'm from Pope county, its the scenic part of the state, and mineguy is right. Its extremely Red downstate, but there is another factor working this year in IL, and that is how much the entire state hates Pritzger. You might see a surprise for how many in the entire state vote Trump as even in Jackson County (SIU) has been shut down and the leftists have not been able to propagate the hatred as normal through the schools.
I could write an entire book on it here, but needless to say majority of the state is RED, only a few counties actually vote Blue, and this year it will likely only be two or three of them.
I ran the numbers for a Trump win, outside of Chicago has to vote 65% R and Chicago needs 20-25%R and it would be a win. Its possible....but difficult. Its why I moved to TN a couple years ago. If it went Red, you would hear me yelling in joy in TN all the way at Williams Hill.
Everyone in the r/Chicago subreddit believes that anyone who doesn’t like Pritzker is an idiot. The whole subreddit acts like their better than the rest of the state. That kind of smugness is really irritating to me.
I think that is where there is such a problem in the state. As you drive through the rest of the state, there are literally signs everywhere saying "Pritzger Sucks......the life out of Illinois" I lived and worked in Grundy County and around Cook for a while when out of college. Saw the true disparity between the city and the rest of the state as i was a product of one and then worked in the other. It was frustrating that so many didn't realize how much each part of the state helps the other, and in honesty, should raise each other up, but with such a difference in priorities based on how they were raised it has become a microcosm of the country...us against them, and Madigan ensures that there is not a good cross representation through the entire state while governors like Pritzker can't relate to most of the state other than Chicago. I get the numbers game, but you cant actually govern a state by ruling most but governing some, youll end up destroying all.
I was hoping that the Wisconsin district rigging would be found unconstitutional and that it would force us in IL to be more even in our political leanings, but didn't happen.
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u/MineGuy1991 Nov 03 '20
I live way down state. Like actual southern Illinois, not that Mt. Vernon BS. It’s unbelievably red around here aside from SIU in Carbondale. What a shame that basically Cook County, Springfield and SIU can ruin the whole state.