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March 08, 2008

McCain's guy loses to Obama's guy

Big news with big implications out of Chicago tonight:

CHICAGO (AP) — A longtime Republican district fell to the Democrats Saturday when a wealthy businessman and scientist snatched former House Speaker Dennis Hastert's congressional seat in a closely watched special election.

Democrat Bill Foster won 52 percent of the vote compared to 48 percent for Republican Jim Oberweis.

One of the things most interesting about this particular race is that McCain helped Oberweis raise money and Obama did a TV spot for Foster. Oberweis turned to Hastert for TV ad help, though.

So it a way this was an election between McCain's coattails and Obama's coattails.

Posted by Kevin at March 8, 2008 09:27 PM