AND THAT IS HOW WE DO THAT!

This wont be the first lost to republicans when Obama is running the GE.

Coat tails, baby.

By Tuesday night Hillary will be the memory of a bad dream. Pennsylvania--we're coming for your delegates.

In addition, the Repubs spent well over $1,000,000 to hold this seat - which is now money they don't have for other contests.
Money well spent, I'd say!

This is Dennis Hastert's seat, not some backbencher!! He was the Speaker of the House! Obama has a golden opportunity to spin this to party insiders as proof of those coattails he has been talking about.

That would be the double icing on today's Obama cake. Getting over the 60% vote in WY at the end was pretty sweet too, especially considering it doesn't actually count.

Sinbad is VERY CONFUSED!

This is a red district (Sinbad heard that those don't matter) in a state won by Obama (Sinbad heard that those also don't matter).

So why are you all acting like this matters? So a Dem won a seat previously held by a Republican. Big deal. WE ALL KNOW THAT WON'T HAPPEN IN NOVEMBER!

I'll tell you what does matter - passing the Commander-In-Chief threshold by solving the refugee crisis in Kosovo with my friend Sheryl Crow.

Folks, it's time why got down to what really matters - me, Sinbad!

Clinton/Sinbad in '08! Ready to be your House Guest on Day One!

Perhaps someone with some clout could hit the national media over the head with this one?

This is what we've been talking about all along. Get the folks involved in politics and it changes the whole game!

Course the focus for the media is the latest Clinton soundbite about how they want this thing run...they want to be elected so we kids (I'm a 56 year old white woman, thank you) won't be disappointed (how condescending can you get), that Obama will be fine...the Clintons will help them along by considering him for VP (he's ahead in every category save party inside supers), how they think about whatever little thing they throw out to the cowed press.

Good grief. If the Party doesn't see what this young man has accomplished, and done so by a better slime machine than the Reps could ever hope for, they don't deserve me, my support, my money or my vote.

Fabulous news and congrats to Foster

While Obama helps fellow Democrats and wins us seats, Hillary runs around the country trying her hardest to destroy our chances in November. Hmmmmmm...

http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/post/28336178

One of the best arguments for why Barack needs to be the Democratic candidate is the coat tails issue. I just don't see Hillary being able to go into the Republican and Republican leaning districts and being much of a help bringing more Democrats into the congress. And lets say, god forbid, she does become president. How many Republicans and Democrats in conservative leaning districs are going to want to work with her knowing that when they do thier next opponent will absolutely use that against in every bit of advertising.

Obama also set up a phonebank on his site for people to call into Foster's district. This is a HUGE win for Dems -- and a great sign of Obama's coattails.

Foster not eligible as superdelegate, though. Cutoff was March 1. Just to make it clear that was not Obama's motivation. I think he's just building a good House for himself.

****Laura Bush in 2012!****

Faux-Sinbad is classic.

Ranks right up there with pre-ummasking Fake Steve Jobs.

Bravo.

If I were a Republican member of congress
this result would scare the hell out of me. There is no refuge from outrage, no safe GOP districts except for maybe Walter Jones of South Carolina and Ron Paul of Texas.

THAT'S GOT TO BE DISAPPOINTING AND EMBARRASSING FOR THE GOP!

http://OsiSpeaks.com or http://RealConservativesSpeak.com

I can't wait to get on with the business of the general election. this is a taste of what's to come

Obama is the natural order of things now and the way the country is ready to go (save for the unsavable places who wouldn't vote for a dem if it's the last thing they ever did). Hillary is just messing the whole thing up by persisting when she has already lost, and persisting in such a negative fashion.

news like this district today is the future we all await, finally. not perfect but a whole lot better than it's been in a long, long time

2 cheers for the political future, and I forget the last time I thought that (WJC era included), if ever

for a dark political skeptic, I now say fill my eyes with stardust, I'm deep into the kool-aid

thank you sir, may I have another

Interesting quote in the middle of the article:

"House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.) called the race "the shot of change heard around the world." "

Rahm has been officially neutral to this point - he considers President Clinton to be his mentor, but he is also close to Senator Obama. But using "change" has to have been intentional.

This is GREAT NEWS for DENNY HASTERT!!!

Give me a break. When will your vitriol end? Of course Obama campaigned for him because the district is in Illinois, Obama's home state. It's the only big state that he's carried and he has all the super-delegates. The reason Obama helped Foster is because now he has another super-delegate. It was in the interest of his own campaign. If it weren't for Illinois, Obama wouldn't have a delegate lead. But leave it to the Obamatons to turn even good news into another opportunity to distort the facts and attack Hillary. Democrats win another seat - another reason to hate Hillary. It's sick and it's twisted.

this one goes out to denny hastert and the repuglitards:

doing the "Snoopy Dance"

Na Na NA NA

Na Na NA NA

HEY HEY HEY

GOODBYE

Senator's Clinton's words were not followed up by action. Having a good idea did not defeat Speaker Hastert. Senator Obama had the right solution - providing an endorsement, phonebanking support and advertising for the candidate.

If Senator Clinton thought Bill Foster was the right candidate, why didn't she provide more assistance?

Didn't Oberweis have to win a primary to run for this seat? If so, that shows how effed up Illinois Republicans are, and the same dynamic forced the moderate Tom Davis (R-VA) to announce he was through after this year. The knuckle-draggers propelled the GOP to power and are now captains of a sinking ship.

Before you scream coat tails too loud you should look at Foster's numbers BEFORE the Obama endorsement. Looks more like Obama decided to try and hang onto Foster's coat tails.

I worked this campaign for the last three weeks. We turned out 700 volunteers. We knocked on doors in our targeted precincts at least two and most of them three times yesterday out of the IBEW
Hall in Warrenville.

I don't know what you're talking about with the state party GOTV effort Eric. The only statewide politician I heard about being involved was Alexi Giannoulias our up and coming Treasurer. Maybe I'm giving short shrift to others out of ignorance but I don't think so.

Scott Harper IL-13 candidate, had his staffers recruiting volunteers for Foster for over a month. I ran into him doorknocking in a barrio precinct in Aurora next to the one I was doing yesterday. Jan Schakowsky (IL-9), just as she's done for about every other race I've seen out here sent staff. Melissa Bean (IL-08), did too. The unions went all out. Obama turned over his mybarackobama.com phonebanking set up to anyone who wanted make calls for Foster nationwide. Barack made a commercial for him and he and Durbin
sent out a bunch of fundraising emails.

In Dekalb, home of Northern Illinois University where that awful shooting happened a few weeks ago and spring break started yesterday, where you'd think kids couldn't get out of town fast enough they had more volunteers than they knew what to do with.

Some poor hispanics in Aurora, who'd evidently never seen anyone in their neighborhood, let alone at their door before asking for their vote clutched my political flyer like I was giving them their own personal copy of the constitution.

Hillary did make one inadvertent contribution. Foster had a boatload of really good young ex Hillary staffers who left after IA and OH. Most of them weren't very happy with the top down disregard for their warnings about what was killing her campaign on the ground. They came here with some residual loyalty but I gotta tell ya after they saw what Obama coattails can do the last couple of days imo they're all converts.

We cranked this win out in the bitter cold. I felt like I was doorhanging on the Russian steppe Friday, a howling wind on the flat treeless prairie in a below zero windchill in a newer subdivision. The ground was too frozen to hammer in yard signs all month. Luckily we had large snow piles we could jam them into and build mounds around the legs to withstand the wind until last week.

We said please come to Chicago and they came from all over. The first two guys I met this morning at the Electrical Union Hall were from Boston and Ohio. I drove half an hour out of my district to Geneva every other day and then another hour up to Elgin or Aurora to canvass. Some of these folks drove halfway across country.

We showed you it can be done and how to do it Democrats of America. The opening shots of 2008 have been fired. We've taken the first fight and gutted their morale and fundraising.

We've put a Fermi Lab physicist with the endorsement of 28 Nobel scientists in the US House. The Enlightenment is back. And that's just for starters.

Ah the tired "big state" meme...

5 have voted for Obama: IL, WA, MO, VA, and GA

6 have voted for Clinton: OH, CA, NY, NJ, MA, and TN

And for TX she won the popular vote, while he won on delegates.

Get yer damn facts straight.

THE CLINTONS---
Remember what happened to other Democrats during the Clinton years. Fewer senators, fewer representatives, fewer governors, fewer state legislators.
-- Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress for the first time in more than 40 years after the 1994 elections.
Democrats lost control of the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years, along with control of the Senate and 10 gubernatorial seats--- From 1992 to 2000, Democratic overall losses: governor went down by 12///Senator was reduced by 7///Reps reduced by 46

Total popular vote count
13,149,462 Obama
12,550,508 Clinton

Obama + 598,594

I forgot the votes in small states don't matter...

Another strategic blunder by Hillary.

Pantsuits do not come with coattails!

Whenever people talk about big states versus small states I think of NH and its measly 4 electoral college votes. Forget Florida. If Gore had simply won New Hampshire he would be preparing to bid the White House good-by. Florida could have been safely stolen by the Republicans and it would not have mattered. Remember NH. Many match-ups have Obama taking it but not Clinton in the GE.

BKinDaHouse,

Did you just predict Clinton winning North Carolina? I think you need to take another look at the demographics, perhaps comapring them to Virginia nad South Carolina, and recall how well Clinton did in those two states.

Hillary supporters need to make more realitic predictions if they are to be taken seriously. I'm an Obama supporter, but I don't go around claiming he's going to win Pennsylvania.

If Hillary is so dismissive of "small states" wins, then why did she brag about finding her voice in little ol' New Hampshire.... ..Hmmm! A little State saved her ample pantsuited arse.