Great evidence of Obama's coat tails, even if in his home state.

You can see Obama hypnotizing the voters of IL-14 through the screen. Poor bastards never had a chance.

It's not over yet. Oberweiss has hundreds if not thousands of huge 6' x 8' signs, practically billboards up across the district. He has a million bucks of ugly NRCC radio and TV ads on day and night in the Chicago media market. I have no idea how much of his own money he's spending but he's already blown thru the FEC millionaire's restriction without reporting it. Certainly to be a fine but to Repubs? It's just a cost of doing business.

He has the Republican political machines in DuPage, Will and Kane behind him. In DuPage and Kane (and maybe elsewhere) he literally has the faith based electronic vote tabulating machines controlled by Republican election commissions on his side. The notorious DuPage Election Commission sent out postcards to voters in the four largest precincts in the election giving them the wrong polling place. We caught it and hopefully our voter outreach has rectified that little "glitch".

That being said we can win this race. Oberweiss is a 3 time loser and a perennial candidate. His attack ads and the NRCC's are so over the top I suspect that even low info voters are just reminded why they rejected hate him in 2002 and 2004.

When I tell folks Foster wants to get us out of Iraq I get immediate nods of agreement. When I tell them he'd prefer to spend some of that money rebuilding communities like Aurora, Elgin, and West Chicago which already look pretty hard by the recession and then pay down some of our debt with the rest so we don't keep borrowing money from the Red Chinese and Saudi oil princes who sent us the 9/11 bombers I get more.

But we need help. The election is Saturday. If you can come to suburban Chicago. If you can't send whatever cash you can so we can run that Obama ad
a little more often. We need folks who can do all the usual GOTV activities, phonebank, doorhangers,
provide rides etc.

http://www.foster08.com/

Foster wins! Count one more superdelegate for Barack Obama.

I have one thing to say: imagine if Hillary had run an ad supporting Bill Foster in this heavily conservative district. It would have been like strapping an anvil to a swimmer who had a shot to win the race.

This bodes well for downticket races if Obama is the nominee. If it's Hillary, then you can forget about any progressive majority.

I understand that we each have our preferences and thus our candidates. And it is sometimes difficult to see through our partisanship.
For disclosure's sake I am supporting Obama-even though I wish he was farther to the left and more strongly anti-war among other things.

But a few things are clear. Obama is a leader- he looks forward and tries to project his vision. The other candidate is a follower-they effectively put their finger in the air to see which way the winds blow (think "triangulation").

Additionally, Obama is an inspired man. If anyone doubts that just watch ANY other candidate and see who else constantly moves the crowds. That cannot be faked. The other candidate has criticized him, but does anyone doubt for one second that if they had the capability they would go out there with "speeches" like his. They cannot-because it is not in their heart. It is not his words-it is the inspiration behind them!

Last. Obama has taken far less funding from the corps than the other candidates. By the way-check and you will see that the other candidate is the number one recipient of both the healthcare and defense industries' largess.

I humbly accept anyone's reasoned disagreement with Obama's vision. That goes back to our individual preferences. But anyone who cannot see that he is an inspired leader is simply not looking with clarity.