Despite feuding among Democrats that has dominated Illinois politics, Republican leaders conceded Thursday that a GOP revival in the state isn't likely until 2010 given a fall election featuring Barack Obama at the top of the ballot.
As Republicans launched their celebratory day at the Illinois State Fair, by far a lower-key affair compared to Wednesday's Democrat Day in Springfield, much of the discussion looked ahead to the next round of statewide races for governor and other offices in two years rather than this year's fall campaigns.
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Sen. Bill Brady of Bloomington, among several potential 2010 candidates for governor to attend a morning breakfast of Republican county chairmen, chided some of his GOP legislative colleagues for backing a Blagojevich-driven construction plan.
"Some of the Republcians have been put into a position to where they feel they've got nothing else to do but trust," said Brady, who has opposed the governor's construction plans. "Do I applaud our leadership for trying to do something to work across the aisle? Yeah. It's just not something I would have negotiated or I would have supported."
Besides Brady, an unsuccessful 2006 Republican primary candidate for governor, other 2010 statewide hopefuls at the morning breakfast included DuPage County State's Atty. Joe Birkett, the unsuccessful GOP contender for lieutenant governor in 2006, Sen. Christine Radogno of Lemont, who lost a bid last time for state treasurer, and Sen. Dan Rutherford of Chenoa, who was defeated in the 2006 race for secretary of state.
Robert Kjellander, the retiring Republican National Committeeman for the state, acknowledged that what he called "Obamamania" will be a significant hurdle for Illinois' GOP candidates to overcome this year.
What you see is actually two articles in that post. The GOP hasn't been doing very well in the state and the environment isn't in their favor.
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