President Barack Obama could lose his home state of Illinois in November, a new poll shows.
A poll conducted by Illinois-based pollster and political strategist Michael McKeon found Obama leading Republican Mitt Romney by 49 percent to 37 percent in Cook County, the home of Chicago. That puts him ahead by a far thinner margin than expected in a county he should be winning handsomely.
Cook is the most Democratic leaning county in the state. It is also the most populous.
Those numbers do not bode well for the president.
“He has to come out of Cook County with a big lead or he’s gonna have problems downstate,” explained McKeon, who said that based on the numbers he had seen, Obama polled only in the forties in downstate Illinois.
“It’s not like his policies are very popular downstate,” McKeon said. “He’s viewed as more part of Chicago than he is part of Illinois.”
According to the poll, which surveyed 629 registered voters last week, Obama’s problems are not in Chicago proper, but in suburban Cook County.
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actually……Paul Ryan is still losing Wisconsin….that is the real news…Obama is up in his home state by 20 percent….dont let the facts get in your way
oh..and Romeny is losing Massachussetts…..so..the only people that know Romeny and Paul hate them both
Let’s hope.
What’s the shock? His policies are killing a republic. Just because Crook County can’t see it as that doesn’t mean the rest of the state is as blind or stupid.
Not so fast. Rahm Emmanuel, Obama’s former hatchet man and now mayor of Chicago, might help him “win” Cook County the same way that Mayor Daley helped JFK win it in 1960. The “fair liberal” way .
If Obama would have trouble carrying Illinois, he is facing an election fiasco similar to Mondale, McGovern, Landen, etc. If fact though, the only incumbant president to get so thoroughly trounced was Herbert Hoover.
The stock market is upn110 percent under Obama. He gets my vote
Yeah right – if you buy into the manipulated fed stock market – Have fun loosing all your money
Obama is going to destroy whatever is left of our economy
Remember that you voted for him