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61. What??!! Dupage County was held by Henry Hyde for decades, one of the reddest US counties

there was no way a Dem was going to win there, especially a progressive like Christine Cegelis. Henry Hyde personally hand selected his replacement in Peter Roskam and threw his substantial clout behind him.

Every single US Rethug presidential candidate in the world goes to Dupage County to fund raise and give speeches. All of them - its that red. Besides that Pete Roskam had every Rethug heavyweight coming to specifically campaign for him when he ran for that seat including Cheney, Laura Bush, and Karl Rove.

Tammy Duckworth came as close to winning that seat as any Dem will ever come - she was within 3 pts. I know because I lived in Wheaton for 25 years. I went to high school with Pete Roskam, I even have naked baby pics of Pete and I in the baby pool together as toddlers. Furthermore, I worked on Tammy's campaign in order to say I did everything I could to try to turn that seat blue.

It beggers belief why you would distort her very, very admirable run against Roskam. She did a damn fine job on her first campaign ever trying to take Hyde's seat.