Politics: 2020 Illinois Senate Race

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.