2008 was the first year since the Republican Party was formed that a Democrat carried McHenry County. Barack Obama got 51.8% of the ballots cast to John McCains’s 44.5%. This year, the Republicans took McHenry County. Mitt Romney won 53.3% … Continue reading
Category Archives: Mitt Romney
I mentioned earlier that my neighbor kitty-cornered across the street had his Obama and Jim Roden signs stolen and I think I mentioned that my Romney sign had been knocked down five times before it disappeared. This morning as I … Continue reading
A press release from the polling firm We Ask America: Favorite Son There’s been a surprising amount of conjecture coming our way lately about the possibility of Mitt Romney inching closer to Barack Obama in Illinois. We’ve not paid much … Continue reading
Republican Campaign Headquarters in Crystal Lake will get the last 300 Romney signs scheduled for deliver Tuesday afternoon between 4 and 5. The national Romney campaign is not supplying them. The McHenry County Republican Party is buying them and, needless … Continue reading
Scott Rasmussen is a pollster best known for doing a daily poll on Presidential approval and disapproval. Yesterday he published an article that points to Wisconsin as the key for a Mitt Romney over Barack Obama. Will Illinois activists on … Continue reading
What do you do when someone steals six Romney signs from your front yard? I had mine knocked down six times, run over the first time, I think. Then, it was stolen this weekend, A fellow in McHenry is the … Continue reading
A friend of McHenry County Blog has forwarded an invitation to Democrat State Rep. Jack Franks’ September 29th fundraising breakfast at Donley’s Wild West Town. The Jesse White Tumblers will perform. As usual Franks provides a list of those who … Continue reading
McHenry County Republican Party Chairman made robo-calls (I got two, one right after another) to invite people to Crystal Lake’s d’Andrea’s for a free Mitt Romney yard sign and to watch the final night of the Republican National Committee. The … Continue reading
If you were inspired by the Republican National Convention and would like a Romney for President sign, the McHenry County Republican Party will be giving them away at D’Andrea’s at the southeast corner of Route 14 and 31 Thursday night. … Continue reading
There’s a rally for GOP Presidential candidate (well, not nominated, but de facto) Mitt Romney. If you would like tickets, you can obtain the right to ask for them by going to State Treasurer Dan Rutherford’s web site and “voting” … Continue reading
Regular readers will know that I go to parades to read political tea leaves. Perhaps the biggest insight was that Democrat Jack Franks was in the middle of the Republican floats. Whether deliberate or not, it surely sent a mixed … Continue reading
That’s a big enough sample to project that Romney will win McHenry County. Looking at the delegate counts, which are what really matter, the Romney delegates are leading in the 6th Congressional District (Algonquin Township portion of McHenry County). In … Continue reading
Late Monday morning, MItt Romeny’s SuperPAC Restore Our Future called still again. This time Romney’s people played the Obama card. Did I know that Barack Obama is attacking Romney because he doesn’t want to run against him? “Really?” I thought. … Continue reading
Got pretty much the same negative message about Presidential candidate Rick Santorum this morning that I got yesterday morning. Same “Santorum is not Pro-Life” message the middle of last week. Funny how McHenry County Pro-Lifers went to hear Newt Gingrich … Continue reading
The SuperPAC supporting Mitt Romney called me today and, in a voice that sounded like a gerbil on speed, told me all sorts of bad things Rick Santorum had done. “Santorum has a record. Don’t ignore it.” Less than an … Continue reading
While my wife and I were eating outside at Colonial Cafe, my son took a robo-call that turned out to be from the Mitt Romney campaign. It said that Rick Santorum was not Pro-Life. Could have fooled me. All the … Continue reading
Look at the online headline about the Chicago Tribune’s presidential preference poll: The results showed 35% for Romney 31% for Santorum 12% for Gingrich 7% for Paul The margin of error was +/- 4%, so the top two are statistically … Continue reading
Here’s the email about yesterday’s polling from We Ask America: Romney/Santorum As America was gearing up to watch the Oscars, We Ask America was in the field in Michigan and Arizona asking likely Republican voters for the final time before … Continue reading
Here’s the press release from We Ask America: Michigan: Dead Heat The State of Michigan has displayed its fair share of mojo lately. From Clint Eastwood’s breathy Super Bowl ad proclaiming the U.S. auto industry as the economic beacon of … Continue reading
It’s less than five weeks before the Illinois primary election and a Super PAC has run a TV ad on Fox News in the Chicago market. Here’s the final screen: … Continue reading