Bill Foster mentioned the poll last week when I met him - he said it convinced him to run - it’s spelled out in Lynn Sweet’s blog today:
“If Hastert ran again, he starts out ahead — 55 percent according to the poll and with a 63 percent approval rating — decent, but not a landslide.
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I don’t write about polls unless I can see the entire survey and I did. The Foster campaign polling firm, Global Strategies, interviewed 402 likely voters in the the 14th Congressional District April 3-5 with a margin of error plus or minus 4.9 percent. The complete poll is interesting in that it showed that President Bush’s unfavorables in the district are high — 52 percent compared to 27 percent for Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and 46 percent for Gov. Blagojevich.
More hopeful for the Democrats in the far west suburban and Downstate district that almost stretches to the Mississippi River is this: In a “generic” House match-up for November 2008 (a nameless Republican vs. a nameless Democrat), Democrats trump Republicans 40 percent to 30 percent.”
Rich Miller cover the poll as well - pointing out that President Bush’s unfavorable rating is higher than Governor Blagojevich’s in a supposedly GOP district.
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