According to Robert T. Saar, Executive Director for the DuPage County Election Commission (in a FOIA reponse last month), in the 2004 general election in DuPage County, there were:
174,063 Republicans
99,095 Democrats
246,607 Independents
11,970 Nonpartisan
Certainly the gap between professed Republicans and Democrats seems quite wide, yet with more Democratic-minded individuals moving into DuPage, ongoing dissension over the Bush administration and the Iraq War, and the likelihood of a Democratic presidential candidate with Illinois roots -- plus strides made by 2006 Democratic candidates -- you can see where this gap may no longer remain so large.
PLUS...
This Washington Post article states that in 2006, Independents were voting Democratic 2 to 1. If anything, this left-leaning preference has increased over the past year. Carrying this out to mean that 164,000 Independents vote left in DuPage, while 82,000 Independents vote right, that would make the tally approximately:
263,000 Democrats
256,000 Republicans
But before "we" declare victory, realize that DuPage may have been completely "Red" all these years for reasons superceding the proclivities of its voting populace (and no, I'm not talking about Election fraud; I'll leave that to others).
In the past some DuPage "independents" may have been swayed by the seemingly Right-leaning mindset of "most of their neighbors," especially with Republicans filling their Precincts with Committee(wo)men. To win, we need to do the same, and show everyone that there is no reason to be bashful, embarrassed or guilty about voting for Democratic candidates in DuPage.
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Frankly, I don't get it.
What are these numbers (174,063 Republicans, etc.) based on? Illinois doesn't register voters by party. In the primary you can
count how many Republicans there are by the number of people who pull Republican ballots.
But these numbers don't correspond to those -- only 86,993 Republican ballots were pulled
in that primary compared with 63,951 Democratic ones. Maybe you could count straight
ticket voters, but the numbers don't work for that either; Alan Keyes got nowhere near
that many votes in DuPage. Where do these numbers come from?
You like to see voter fraud,
go to the blue paradise of honest government, Cook county.
There, it's practiced to a fine art. Nary a republican vote sees the light of day there.
Vote early, vote often is an tried and true statement of honest Democratic election strategy.
Lets not forgot, on election day, dead come alive and vote blue in Cook County.
Nary a republican vote sees the light of day [in Cook County].
Ummmm, yeah.
So I guess this is just a figment of our imagination, then.
Not to mention this.
And this.
And of course, this.
Thanks for setting us straight on this, chuckles.
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