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She was so close last time and I think this is her year. This is a heavily gerrymandered district that stretches like a snake half the length of the state diagonally across Illinois. I am 3 hours from Champaign but we share this congressional district because republicans wanted to include as many rural voters as they could across central Illinois to counterweight Champaign, Sangamon, and Madison counties which are far apart.
Rodney Davis' central message as he repeatedly votes against ACA has been... "How could I be against pre-existing conditions when my wife has one?" 
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