Last Friday, we highlighted the latest Rasmussen poll on the Illinois governor's race and noted a strange oversight: While the polling firm tested Pat Quinn and Dan Hynes against GOP candidates Kirk Dillard, Andy McKenna, and Bill Brady, they forgot to include Republican frontrunner Jim Ryan. On Sunday, Rasmussen [...]
For the first time in seven years--according to my recollection--an Illinois Republican leads a Democrat in a statewide poll.A new GOP gubernatorial poll including former Attorney General Jim Ryan came out today from Rasmussen Reports, and shows Ryan up by 7 points over Democrat Governor Quinn, giving Ryan the best chance of any of the IL GOP candidates to defeat a Democrat in [...]
Blogging from my Blackberry: I've just been notified that Republican Jim Ryan leads likely Democratic nominee Pat Quinn for Illinois gov. Acc. to Rasmussen. [...]
From a press release*:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_governor_elections/illinois/election_2010_illinois_governor
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Illinois voters finds former state Attorney General Jim Ryan leading incumbent Democratic Governor Pat Quinn 46% to 39%. Nine percent (9%) of Illinois voters like some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.
Ryan’s is within two points [...]
UPDATE 1x: Illinois Republican State Party Chairman Pat Brady told Illinois Review that Rasmussen has polling on the Illinois gubernatorial race including Jim Ryan that will be released next week. Stay tuned.
A Rasmussen poll Friday pits the two Democratic Illinois gubernatorial candidates against McKenna, Dillard and Brady, and finds [...]
I had the pleasure of attending a fundraiser for Jim Ryan tonight in Lombard. The former Illinois Attorney General is running for governor and is leading in all of the polls, but a tough fight still lies ahead for the onetime Golden Glove champion boxer. I got [...]
Former Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan, a Republican candidate for governor whom this blog has endorsed, is calling for a series of public hearing on transferring Guantanamo Bay terrorists to the Thomson prison in northwestern Illinois.The below statement comes from the Jim Ryan campaign:from the Ryan for Governor campaign
Illinois gubernatorial candidate and former Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan reacted today to revelations in an Associated Press story that Governor Pat Quinn secretly released more than 850 inmates since September by immediately awarding them months of good-conduct credit, some of [...]
by Rafael Rivadeneira, candidate for 41st State Rep District
Well, we’ve got another case of Power to the Pork brewing among Illinois machine Republicans.
In the past weeks, former governor Jim Edgar and GOP gubernatorial candidates Kirk Dillard and Jim Ryan all refused to close the door on tax increases for [...]
In an Associated Press wire story released yesterday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Ryan pledged to sign a ban on Assault Weapons and promised to veto any Concealed Carry legislation that reaches his desk.
In making these pronouncements, Jim Ryan was very clear that he would [...]
With seven weeks until the GOP 2010 primary, a Chicago Tribune puts former Attorney General Jim Ryan in a commanding lead over the other six Republican gubernatorial candidates. Among 600 likely GOP voters during the week of December 2 through 8,
26% said they'd vote for Jim Ryan, 12% for Andy McKenna, 10%' [...]Following that statement, a Ryan spokesperson explained that Ryan doesn't believe that' [...]
A decent man is being tarred by the actions of another and he doesn't deserve it.
Jim Ryan, former Attorney General of Illinois and current candidate for Governor, has always enjoyed a stellar reputation for integrity. When he says "I never took a pencil that didn't" [...]
from the Ryan for Governor campaign
We are proud to announce that the Illinois Federation for Right to Life Political Action Committee (IFRL-PAC) has endorsed Jim Ryan for Illinois Governor. Dawn Behnke, chair of IFRL-PAC, writes in the organization’s endorsement letter:
We are pleased to announce our endorsement [...]
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