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TexasTowelie

(116,696 posts)
Sun Nov 4, 2018, 07:22 AM Nov 2018

Far out! Illinois Democrats think they've dropped in on the big one (Bluenami!)

No longer content with electing a “blue wave” of Democrats on Tuesday, Illinois Democrats are starting to talk about a “bluenami.”

That was the prediction Friday of Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza as she joined governor candidate J.B. Pritzker and the rest of the Democrats’ statewide ticket in a show of unity.

She offered only one caveat.

“On Tuesday we’re going to see a big beautiful wave crest in Illinois. It’s going to be a blue one, and if you work hard enough, it’s going to be a bluenami. You heard it here first,” gushed Mendoza, who apparently is so confident that she is perched safely atop the wave that she unwisely made a campaign video announcing her run for mayor — a video that leaked out, prematurely, later Friday.

It is a measure of the troubles that Illinois Republicans face this year that Mendoza was probably correct in her calculation that it will take a lot more than that to wipe out her re-election chances.

Read more: https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/brown-midterm-election-democrats-blue-wave-predictions-illinois-pritzker-mendoza/amp/

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Far out! Illinois Democrats think they've dropped in on the big one (Bluenami!) (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2018 OP
with a worthless Republican Gov up for reelection he will lose by 20points, downballot beachbum bob Nov 2018 #1
 

beachbum bob

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1. with a worthless Republican Gov up for reelection he will lose by 20points, downballot
Sun Nov 4, 2018, 07:55 AM
Nov 2018

gop'ers face extra hurdles. In Il-13, our democratic candidate Betsey Londrigan is running an inspiring campaign and has a great shot

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