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2016 Postmortem

guillaumeb

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1. There is also a 2018 Governor's race in Illinois.

Reply to dsc (Original post)

Mon Jan 2, 2017, 12:37 PM

Jan 2017

In 2014, billionaire predatory capitalist Bruce Rauner won the election, an election with a 34% turnout, by spending 65 million dollars of his own money. Since then, for 2 years he has failed to present a balanced budget, a Constitutional requirement, but he has been basically campaigning against the Democrats. In December, he gave 50 million more to his 2018 campaign.

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The governor's races in 2017 and 2018 [View all] dsc Jan 2017 OP

There is also a 2018 Governor's race in Illinois. guillaumeb Jan 2017 #1

we should be able to beat him dsc Jan 2017 #3

And rich backers like Ken Griffin and Sam Zell, guillaumeb Jan 2017 #6

Democrats will find a way to fuckup 2018 races bigdarryl Jan 2017 #2

Here in Nevada, Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #4

Isn't the guy in CO term limited? crazycatlady Jan 2017 #5

yes which is why I think that could be dicey for us dsc Jan 2017 #7

I forgot to mention the states where there are incumbents dsc Jan 2017 #8