Chicago suburbs vote overwhelmingly Democratic

You may recall that after the March primary I took a look at the results and made the obvious conclusion that the Chicago suburbs were trending ever harder toward the Democrats. “Legislative Republicans are right to be afraid of another suburban wipeout,” I concluded at the time. Turns out, I underestimated the breadth of the wipeout. I didn’t bother to look at McHenry County’s primary results back then. That was a mistake. JB Pritzker became the first Democratic gubernatorial candidate to win McHenry County since 1852. Yes, 174 years ago. Indeed, the entire statewide Democratic ticket carried McHenry this month. Pritzker and U.S. Senate candidate Juliana Stratton won by 11 points, and the rest of the ticket won by anywhere between nine and 18 points (Alexi Giannoulias, who lost the county four years ago by three points). Two years ago, Republican Rep.

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