[moparcardave]

http://www.rrstar.co...tes-got-support

Not at all complete but interesting. I wish I could find the actual breakdown. I didn't copy and paste it all.

Much of Illinois, at least geographically, was for Hynes. Hynes actually beat Quinn in 88 of Illinois’ 102 counties, or 86.3 percent of the counties. Quinn won just 14 counties. Quinn won five by fewer than 100 votes each — and three of those by fewer than 10 votes each.

Hynes, meanwhile, won 24 counties by fewer than 100 votes each. But he also won nine counties by more than 1,000 votes.

Why didn’t Hynes win then? Simply, Cook County was Quinn’s savior.

Quinn won Chicago’s home county by about seven percentage points — 53 percent to 47 percent. But that figure is misleading.

With more than 566,000 votes cast there, Quinn beat Hynes by more than 39,000 votes. That easily helped him overcome deficits in the suburbs and downstate.

Hynes won 42 counties with a majority of 60 percent or higher. He won five smaller downstate counties by more than 70 percent. Quinn didn’t hit a 60 percent majority in any county over Hynes.

There are more than 11,000 precincts statewide — and about 4,500 in Cook County. One extra vote per precinct, or just two extra votes in each Cook precinct, would have given Hynes the nomination.



REPUBLICANS
This race was dominated by the splits — as in seven candidates splitting the votes.

Five candidates received nearly 15 percent of the votes or more. Dillard and Brady essentially tied at just more than 20 percent. A vote or two different in dozens of counties could easily have meant three or four different winners.

Overall, Brady won 76 counties, compared with just seven for Dillard. Conservative rookie Adam Andrzejewski actually pulled out more support by winning 11 counties, but he finished fifth overall. Businessman Andy McKenna was right behind Dillard with six counties won, while former Attorney General Jim Ryan won two.

Much of Brady’s support was downstate, where he’s from. Dillard won a handful of downstate counties but did much better than Brady in the suburbs and Cook County.

Ryan handily won vote-rich DuPage County in the suburbs, while McKenna won vote-heavy Cook by about 15,000 votes.

Brady did terribly in Cook County, with only about 5 percent of the votes. Even a slightly better performance there could have given him a comfortable statewide win. Brady had only about 8,200 votes there, compared with 47,000 for McKenna, 32,000 for Ryan and 29,000 for Dillard.

Head-to-head, Brady did better than Dillard in 84 of the 102 counties. In some counties, Brady stomped Dillard. But those were mostly smaller, low-vote counties.

Dillard’s stronger showings in the more populous DuPage, Cook, Will, Kane and Sangamon counties kept the margins extra-close.

[Ashrak]

Interesting breakdown.

[1957Human]

moparcardave, on 08 February 2010 - 07:10 PM, said:

http://www.rrstar.co...tes-got-support

DEMOCRATS
Hynes actually beat Quinn in 88 of Illinois' 102 counties, or 86.3 percent of the counties. Quinn won just 14 counties. Quinn won five by fewer than 100 votes each — and three of those by fewer than 10 votes each.

REPUBLICANS
This race was dominated by the splits.

Quinn has worked hard all over downstate for many, many years. (He's been in most all of the river-bordered counties several times just in relation to his role as chairman of the Illinois River Coordinating Council project, not to mention the recent campaigning.) Add to that that party members almost always pick the encumbent (at least where he hasn't been convicted yet) on the theory that name recognition trumps. Yet, Quinn lost a majority of the counties to a fellow Chicagoan? Does not bode well for him come the general election!

Even if the Democrats hadn't threatened Cohen out of the race (or "reimbursed" him the $2 milllion he would have been out, or whatever else they forced on him), they'd be in trouble without at least some downstate support anyway. But if those downstate party members supported Hynes instead, while they might not vote for the Republican this fall, they will stay home.

An equal split among several Republican contenders, on the other hand, where none of them are the incumbent, can't be all that bad.