Here’s
a simple post for a future senate race this year. I will tell you about what
has gone on with it thus far. The primary has already taken place, unlike other
races I plan to cover in the future. A lot of primaries have been delayed. But
I figure that I might as well get to this post.
Dick
Durbin is the incumbent Democrat who is also running for reelection. He has
been in office since 1997, having gotten elected the year before. He is the
Senate Majority Whip right now. He has seen the departure of the five other
senators the occupied seat three in the time that he has spent in the senate
thus far.
The
Republican in the race is Mark Curran. He’s an attorney and former sheriff. He
used to be a Democrat, but switched parties in 2008 after the scandals of Rod
Blagojevich. He doesn’t have much to his name thus far.
There
is a third party candidate that is in the race running as an independent named
Willie Wilson. He can’t even seem to decide what party he is in, having run
unsuccessfully for mayor of Chicago and president of the United States, but
hardly appearing on any ballots in the second case and not having any chance of
winning as a result. He was in the Democratic primary, but not even in this state,
from what I remember.
A
notable fact about the races for senate in this seat in Illinois is just how
uninteresting they tend to be. I had no idea there even was an election this
cycle in 2008. Dick Durbin always seems to just coast his way to the win each
and every time, spending little, if any, on ads downstate or possibly anywhere
in the state.
I’m
just going to get to the closing where I endorse Dick Durbin. I see no
reason why he would lose the race or any reason not to vote for him. It’s
hardly a contest and I don’t think that much else can be said about the race in
general. Dick Durbin is going to win as no one has ever come close to even
trying to be that competitive against him.
