Underwood update

[Cadfael]

“ U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood has moved into the lead in her tightly contested reelection race against Republican challenger Jim Oberweis, according to new ballot counts filed late Saturday night by the Lake County clerk's office.

Those updated unofficial results show Underwood, a freshman Democrat from Naperville, picking up 2,071 more votes in Lake to Oberweis' 929, erasing the Republican's previous 558-vote lead across the 14th District and giving the incumbent a 584-vote edge.”

From: https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20201108/underwood-moves-ahead-of-oberweis-as-lake-county-updates-results

The Chicago Tribune has the numbers at:

Lauren Underwood (DEM)
191,359

Jim Oberweis (GOP)
190,775

This race is particularly difficult to track as it spans numerous counties.

[Beakybird]

1. That Oberweis billionaire has run for governor twice and US senator.

He's a tea bagger.

[Cadfael]

3. We've always called him

“The Milk Nazi” in our house.

[Beakybird]

4. So when you ask for 2%, it refers to fascism and not cream content?

[hedda_foil]

2. Thank goodness!

Her district is so insanely gerrymandered that it runs like a snake through 5 or 6 different counties.

[Cadfael]

5. Insanely enough

It’s actually 7 counties:
DuPage, Lake, McHenry, DeKalb, Kane, Kendall and Will

[2naSalit]

7. Yikes!

I lived in McHenry and DeKalb counties when I lived in Illinois. That state needs some change in the manner of addressing leftovers from decades of corruption.

[3catwoman3]

6. And she won in 2018 by nearly 15,000 votes.

Has anyone speculated on why such a switch in voter preference? I thought she was well liked.

Part of her district is one neighborhood away from mine. Our district, the 6th, is also very weirdly shaped, rather like a very abstract letter C. We only have parts of 5 counties.

[Cadfael]

8. I'm in the 6th as well

I was very worried about Sean Casten, but thankfully he had his seat. I wonder if Lauren Underwood was hurt by that last minute media blitz Oberweiss put out with the audio (heavily edited in my opinion) regarding the “rioting”

[3catwoman3]

9. We thought Casten was going to lose. Jeanne Ives had ads on all...

...the time, and I thought they were well done. Didn’t hear much from Casten until the last couple of weeks of the campaign.

We actually volunteered for one of his competitors in the 2018 primary - Kelly Mazeski. There were too many people running in that primary who didn’t stand a chance, and who diluted the votes.

[Cadfael]

11. I think he made some heavy media buys digitally

My daughter kept telling me that she saw Casten ads all over Hulu and YouTube. I tend to mostly watch cable and I was worried about the lopsided Ives advertising there as well. Her ads seemed very well calculated to appeal to a certain demographic around here.

[3catwoman3]

10. Separate thought.

Are you a fan of the Brother Cadfael series?

We like both the books and the TV series.

[Cadfael]

12. I am

I’ve been using this screen name or a variation there of since back in the 90’s on AOL
Mostly a fan of the books, since I couldn’t shake the thought Derek Jacobi being Claudius...

[murielm99]

14. They targeted Underwood from day one.

This was Hastert's old district, and very republican.

A friend of mine ran for a state rep. seat two years ago. She ran a good race, but lost in our red district. At least she made the little shit who is our rep. in Springfield earn his seat.

Two weeks later she got a call from a family member. All of her family are republican scum. She does not speak to them. The relative wanted her to challenge Underwood in a primary for this election. She was speechless and hung up on the guy. She has not spoken to him since.

A primary would have exhausted time and resources for Underwood. It would have been a way of weakening her. They realized that she would be effective and they wanted to get rid of her ASAP.

I think that is why she lost votes. The repiggies did everything they could to challenge her.

Another one they challenged was Cheri Bustos in the 17th Congressional District. They imported someone to run against Cheri and threw a lot of money at this one, too.

Cheri's district is not like Underwood's. But she usually wins her district by 20%. This time she had the fight of her life to win. They hate her because she is effective, too, and is moving up in a leadership position.

We have to fight them tooth and nail every damn time. We can see from this election how important every vote is. They are always trying to stay one step ahead. That means we have to stay three steps ahead.

[live love laugh]

13. Yessss! nt

[mucifer]

15. as a fellow Illinois nurse my heart was breaking when I thought she lost this is very exciting!!!

[Cadfael]

16. Latest information - Chicago Sun Times

“Lauren Underwood increases lead over Jim Oberweis in Illinois Congress contest: up by 3,496 votes

WASHINGTON —- With more mail ballots counted Tuesday, Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Ill., increased her lead over Republican Jim Oberweis to 3,496 votes in the hotly contested 14th Congressional District contest.

The latest numbers, according to the Associated Press, gives Underwood 50.4% to Oberweis with 49.6%.

In raw numbers, as of Tuesday afternoon, Underwood had 198,161 votes to Oberweis with 194,665.

Most of the latest count came from ballots in the parts of Lake and McHenry Counties in the district.”

More at: https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/11/10/21559382/lauren-underwood-increasing-lead-jim-oberweis-in-illinois-congress-contest-up-3496-votes

[Cadfael]

17. November 11 2020

As of this evening:

“ Freshman Democratic U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood extended her slim lead over Republican challenger Jim Oberweis as ballots continue to be counted in the west and northwest suburban and exurban 14th Congressional District.
As of Wednesday night, Underwood’s advantage over Oberweis grew from 3,524 votes to 4,288 votes after an additional 2,910 ballots were reported by Will County authorities. On a percentage basis, Underwood leads Oberweis 50.5% to 49.5%. “


https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-underwood-oberweis-latest-count-20201112-pgh26wrs2bfbhffbum7kyyfh3e-story.html