DuPage County, Illinois, joined the rest of the 14th District in sending Dennis Hastert back to Congress. I once served as a Democratic Precinct Committeeman in DuPage County, a position I won by sweeping 100% of the votes cast in a Democratic primary, a total of four. The other two didn't show.
Meanwhile Ohio's Second District - that would be Cincinnati and environs - re-elected Jean Schmidt, the one with the wacky flag sweater.
In fact there are 195 districts - as things stand now, with 13 still undecided - representing nearly 45% of the population, willing to send Republicans to Congress, even after the devastation the Rs have visited upon our country and its Constitution - after Iraq, after Katrina, after the torture and the secret prisons and the warrantless domestic evesdropping, after more than 750 presidential "signing statements," after more corruption and downright lawlessness in Washington than I've seen, myself, in more than half a century of watching politics. If that doesn't give you pause, nothing will.
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