IL-14 Special Election Liveblog 2
Sat Mar 08, 2008 at 06:27:19 PM PDT
This is a continuation of dmsilev's IL-14 special election liveblog. As he says:
Remember, this is Dennis Hastert's old district, with Democrat Bill Foster running against all-around-jerk Jim Oberweis. Jim Oberweis is best noted as the person who was passed over in favor of Alan Keyes in the 2004 Senate race.
Counties in italics have 100% of precincts reporting.
County Foster (D) Oberweis (R)
Aurora City 6485 3364
Bureau 45 51
Henry 1046 1678
deKalb 5937 4640
duPage 3294 3216
Kane 25605 24300
Kendall 534 777
Lee 0 0
Whiteside 0 0
Total 50947 46125
Percentage 52 48 (99% Reporting)
One of the local TV stations has an aggregate total here
The overall totals are now from The Beacon News
98% of the Vote is now in, and the election has been called for Foster.
Polls are closed.