Sometimes I wonder why I keep living in Illinois. What with the political corruption (do I really need to list it all?), the incompetent governments (see, inter alia, the mindboggling debt of the public employee pension plans and the “progressive paradise “of Brandon Johnson’s Chicago), and so much more, there aren’t all that many obvious advantages to living in Illinois (other than grandchildren and the Cubs, of course).
But as the 2024 Presidential contest proceeds, inexorably, it seems, to a repeat of 2020’s Biden-Trump horror show, there is one major advantage of living in Illinois: You don’t have to vote for either one of them – because Biden will win Illinois. Even though even one vote can matter, and has (see here), one vote, or even one hundred thousand votes, isn’t going to make a difference in the 2024 Presidential race in Illinois. Biden is going to win Illinois by a lot of votes, and he is going to get Illinois’s 19 electoral votes.1 Which means I don’t have to vote for either Biden or Trump. And that is the advantage of living in Illinois.2
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1 It says something about Illinois that, when John F. Kennedy “won” Illinois in 1960, he got 27 electoral votes. When Joe Biden wins Illinois in 2024, he’ll get 19.
2 It is also the advantage of the Electoral College.
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