Mark Kirk is a Republican senator from Illinois. The guy is horrible, incapable of performing any duties at all, and has done absolutely nothing for Illinois. (Like Rauner, he’s not a whole lot into working.)
Kirk is being challenged for his seat by Democrat Tammy Duckworth who had every chance of winning. That is, until she decided that now is a good time to promote the idea of bringing 100,000 Syrian refugees to the US.
Illinois is a state without a budget that can barely manage to keep its 911 lines open, with a dysfunctional political process and a tanking economy. The last thing voters of any political persuasion want right now is a debate on refugees. But the stupid twat just had to go and step into it, and now Kirk is milking this mistake to death.
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Incumbents always have advantages. Duckworth barely won her last election and for her first election Rahm Emanuel had to spend over a million dollars in the primary to beat her opponent by four points and lose to the incumbent by four points.
I don’t know what she thinks she’s going to do as the junior senator from Illinois. My impression of her is that she’s a good person but a weak politician.
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The Senate needs to be retaken at some point unless we want Hillary to spend all 8 years crippled by a hostile Senate. Every Dem voice counts but we keep losing because Democratic candidates are more tone – death than grizzly bears.
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