Bill Foster's easy victory in Dennis Hastert's old district really is quite a bellwether. I don't know if it points to Obama having massive coattails (the race was in Illinois, and Obama cut an ad for Foster), or the national mood being grim for Republicans, or both, but folks at the RNC are very, very scared today. It's all the worse for them because Foster ran as a proud Democrat. Illinois didn't elect a Blue Dog yesterday, they elected a guy whose web site banner actually has the word "Democrat" in it, who wants to withdraw from Iraq, who brags about his father working on the Civil Rights Act. The only exception is immigration, where he's got some fairly restrictionist rhetoric.(Photo used under no license at all from Nick Beaudrot.) UNEXPECTED WIN.
Bill Foster's easy victory in Dennis Hastert's old district really is quite a bellwether. I don't know if it points to Obama having massive coattails (the race was in Illinois, and Obama cut an ad for Foster), or the national mood being grim for Republicans, or both, but folks at the RNC are very, very scared today. It's all the worse for them because Foster ran as a proud Democrat. Illinois didn't elect a Blue Dog yesterday, they elected a guy whose web site banner actually has the word "Democrat" in it, who wants to withdraw from Iraq, who brags about his father working on the Civil Rights Act. The only exception is immigration, where he's got some fairly restrictionist rhetoric.(Photo used under no license at all from Nick Beaudrot.) 
