Andrzejewski defeated; Brady, Quinn, Kirk, Giannoulias look like winners in Illinois
Despite a flurry of publicity in the conservative blogosphere for a supposed last-minute surge by Tea Party supporter Adam Andrzejewski, he seems destined to finish a respectable but distant fifth in today's Illinois Republican gubernatorial primary.
With 97% of the vote counted, Bill Brady continues to hang on to a razor-thin margin of a few hundred votes over Kirk Dillard for the GOP nomination. Over on the Democratic side, incumbent Gov. Pat Quinn holds a somewhat larger, but still narrow, lead over State Comptroller Dan Hynes.
Meanwhile, in the race for President Obama's old Senate seat, U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk of north suburban Highland Park has scored an easy victory over five lesser-known opponents for the Republican nomination. State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias of Chicago, meanwhile, has scored a decisive but hardly one-sided victory over fellow Chicago Democrat David Hoffman for the right to oppose Kirk.
Hoffman, a former Federal prosecutor and Chicago city inspector general, ran a surprisingly strong insurgent race and is widely regarded as having a future in Illinois politics despite today's defeat.
With 97% of the vote counted, Bill Brady continues to hang on to a razor-thin margin of a few hundred votes over Kirk Dillard for the GOP nomination. Over on the Democratic side, incumbent Gov. Pat Quinn holds a somewhat larger, but still narrow, lead over State Comptroller Dan Hynes.
Meanwhile, in the race for President Obama's old Senate seat, U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk of north suburban Highland Park has scored an easy victory over five lesser-known opponents for the Republican nomination. State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias of Chicago, meanwhile, has scored a decisive but hardly one-sided victory over fellow Chicago Democrat David Hoffman for the right to oppose Kirk.
Hoffman, a former Federal prosecutor and Chicago city inspector general, ran a surprisingly strong insurgent race and is widely regarded as having a future in Illinois politics despite today's defeat.
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