Geographical balance in party tickets
Once again the Illinois Democratic Party has a statewide ticket that is wildly out of balance. All of its candidates, including for U.S. Senate, are from either Chicago or its south suburbs.
Of course, the GOP ticket has no one from the largest municipality in the state.
Maybe lieutenant governor candidate Scott Lee Cohen's legal and political problems will give Dems an excuse to find a downstater to give the ticket a little balance. Otherwise it's Alexi, Quinn, Cohen, Lisa Madigan and Jesse White -- all from Chicago -- and David Miller (comptroller) and Robin Kelly (treasurer) from the south suburbs.
The Republicans currently have three downstaters and four suburban Chicago candidates — Bill Brady, Jason Plummer and Dan Rutherford from downstate -- and Mark Kirk, Steve Kim (attorney general), Robert Enriquez (secretary of state) and Judy Baar Topinka (comptroller) from the suburbs.
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