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Downstate Saved Bruce Rauner Last Night (and Put Pritzker Way Over the Top)

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Via – Chicago Magazine

“Four long years ago, political rookie Bruce Rauner just barely edged out former DuPage County GOP chairman and state senator Kirk Dillard by 2.8 percentage points, or a mere 23,000 votes, after polling well ahead of his more experienced but less wealthy opponent.

Last night, incumbent governor Bruce Rauner just barely edged out Jeanne Ives, a state representative from the DuPage county seat of Wheaton, by 2.98 percentage points, or a mere 20,122 votes, after polling well ahead of her and raising much more money—$215 per vote, according to the Illinois Campaign for Political reform, compared to Ives’s $12 per vote.

So, history repeats itself. Except not quite.”

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