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Many have asked us what they can do now to help elect Republicans in November. As a practical matter, we have to wait until the Republican candidate is chosen in a primary election. Fortunately, Illinois has already held a primary election and Texas has held the first round with any required runoff races to be held on April 13th. We will only look at races where we feel the Republican candidate has a decent chance of beating the Democrat incumbent.
Illinois has four competitive races against Democrat incumbents so we will look at one of those today:
Illinois 8 House District
Democrat Rep. Melissa Bean
Republican Joe Walsh & His Family
Illinois 8 House District
Representative Bean carried this district by a 21.44% margin in 2008 while McCain-Palin were losing by an 12.82% margin. The former Republican incumbent, Philip M. Crane, was beaten by her in 2004. He had represented this district since 1992. Rep. Bean has made the mistake of voting for Obama care twice even after being targeted by the National GOP for her vote the first time. This has moved her into range in the quite possible group for the Republicans to take this seat.
The Republican primary has already been held in Illinois so the Republican candidate is:
Joe Walsh (R) - Teacher, '96 Candidate & '98 State Rep. Candidate
His website is http://walshforcongress.com/
ILLINOIS 8 | RESULTS |
Sample size | 827 |
Democrat Melissa Bean | 37.61% |
Green Party Bill Sheurer | 3.87% |
Republican Joe Walsh | 38.33% |
Unsure | 20.19% |
We Ask America Poll Results on 3/18/10
Nov 04, 2008 |
| Melissa Bean(I) 179,444 60.72% |
| Steve Greenberg 116,081 39.28% | |
Nov 07, 2006 |
| Melissa Bean(I) 93,355 50.91% |
| S. David McSweeney 80,720 44.02% |
| Bill Scheurer 9,312 5.08% | |
Nov 02, 2004 |
| Melissa Bean 139,792 51.70% |
| Philip M. Crane(I) 130,601 48.30% | |
Last 3 Election Results
Here are the demographics for this District:
Cities in Illinois 8
tate | District | 65 or Older | White | Black | Latino | HS Grad | Coll 4Yr | Median HH Income | Poverty Level |
United States | | 16.7% | 74.3% | 12.3% | 15.1% | 84.5% | 27.4% | 52,175 | 13.2% |
Illinois | 8 | 12.3% | 80.3% | 4.0% | 15.9% | 89.8% | 36.0% | 75,522 | 6.5% |
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