Hope for Joe Walsh in Obama Negatives in Cook County Suburbs

Joe Walsh at a Huntley Area Tea Party meeting on gun control.

Joliet pollster Mike McKoen has released resultsof a 629 registered voter poll in Illinois which hints at a strategy that could re-elect Congressman Joe Walsh.

His 8th District was specifically designed by Democrats to elect Tammy Duckworth. It is mainly in suburban Cook County.

And suburban Cook County is not going well for President Barack Obama.

While Obama leads Republican challenger Mitt Romney 60-29 in Chicago, in the Cook County suburbs Romney “leads 45-38.”

With Freshman Walsh having positioned himself as the most critical Congressional opponent of the President, a continuation of that emphasis might just push him to re-election.

It’s a truism, or course, but Walsh will have to follow Romney’s example among suburban independents, where McKoen’s results show Romney ahead 43-31.

For those of you interested in the Presidential race, McKoen says Obama’s numbers Downstate (usually defined as outside the six-county Chicago metropolitan area, but undefined in the article in The Daily Caller), are “only in the forties.”

McKoen was a Demorcat when I met him in Springfield during the late 1970’s.

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Thanks for Dave Diersen’s GOPUSA Illinois for pointing me to the article.


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Hope for Joe Walsh in Obama Negatives in Cook County Suburbs — 4 Comments

  1. The Walsh campaign is going to have to increase it’s communication skills with known supporters, if it is going to have any chance at re-election; you can’t let people go 4.5 months without a reply.

  2. @beenthere..it is the same exact thing he hit his predecessor on and now he is wearing the same show. 629 voters is not a poll.

  3. I believe the main problem is that his ground-game is very disorganized and he has some real incompetent ‘block-heads’ in critical positions.

    It’s sad, really sad.

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