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Related: About this forum4 Democrats face off in Illinois 10th District
February 15, 2012 9:38PM
Democrats in the 10th Congressional District have an enviable problem:
No matter whom they vote for in the March primary, theyll be voting against several other highly credible candidates.
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The 10th has been redrawn to include more Democratic turf 61 percent of the new districts voters went for Barack Obama in 2008 making incumbent Republican Bob Dold more vulnerable in November.
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There is Ilya Sheyman, at 25 just old enough to serve in Congress. Hes a community organizer and is allied with the strongly liberal wing of the Democratic Party. He was national mobilization director for the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org, and he received a $10,000 donation from Democracy for America, the PAC founded by Howard Dean, the lefty former governor of Vermont.
More: http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/10642884-505/4-democrats-face-off-in-10th-district.html
Democrats in the 10th Congressional District have an enviable problem:
No matter whom they vote for in the March primary, theyll be voting against several other highly credible candidates.
--------
The 10th has been redrawn to include more Democratic turf 61 percent of the new districts voters went for Barack Obama in 2008 making incumbent Republican Bob Dold more vulnerable in November.
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There is Ilya Sheyman, at 25 just old enough to serve in Congress. Hes a community organizer and is allied with the strongly liberal wing of the Democratic Party. He was national mobilization director for the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org, and he received a $10,000 donation from Democracy for America, the PAC founded by Howard Dean, the lefty former governor of Vermont.
More: http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/10642884-505/4-democrats-face-off-in-10th-district.html
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4 Democrats face off in Illinois 10th District (Original Post)
ellisonz
Feb 2012
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David__77
(23,892 posts)1. Sheyman clearly should be supported over Schneider.
This is not a swing district by any means, though the media will pretend it will be.
Hey we agree on something!
ellisonz
(27,765 posts)3. Schneider the Republican