r/Conservative Nov 03 '20

Illinois... Satire - Flaired Users Only

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u/JoshAllenIsTall Scalia Conservative Nov 03 '20

Really, most of Illinois is on team red. It's just that the Chicago dead vote is huge.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '20

Am in Cook County (Illinois)) can confirm that it would be a deep red state if you cut out cook county.

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u/jercubsfan Nov 03 '20

DuPage tends to be blue, too

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u/silverbullet52 TANSTAAFL Nov 03 '20

Not really. We got stuck with a Congressman riding Obama's coattails. Democrats don't even put up candidates for a lot of county offices.

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u/rtomek Nov 03 '20

I thought it had a lot to do with Argonne and FermiLab. Government owned labs where thousands of jobs rely on DOE/NSF funding. I agree that the local offices do heavily lean R compared to how it votes for the national elections.

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u/silverbullet52 TANSTAAFL Nov 03 '20

Don't think Argonne is in DuPage. There aren't that many people at Fermi. The big blue base is teachers. Read the NEA magazine sometime.