Front Page Daily Herald: DuPage County a Blue State?

[AtLiberty]

This is HUGE news, folks. DuPage County is the second most populated county in the state. Just 14 months ago, Illinois Republican Party Chairman and State Senator Kirk Dillard bragged that DuPage County was the most Republican County in America because no Democrats had been elected to office.

DuPage County a blue state?

More Democrats cast ballots in this election

By Jake Griffin

For the first time in anyone's recollection, Democratic voters have outnumbered their GOP counterparts at DuPage County polls.

Nearly 55 percent of all voters pulled Democratic ticket ballots Tuesday, according to the DuPage County Election Commission data. More than 132,000 residents voted Democrat to the GOP's 109,132 voters. In all, 242,917 primary ballots were cast.

The highest Democratic percentage of primary voters in the county before this year was in 2004 when they made up 42 percent of the vote. The low point came in 1990 when only 11.5 percent voted Democratic. Presidential primary years routinely draw more Democratic voters to the polls than off-years, according to the data.

Bob Peickert, chairman of the Democratic organization Operation: Turn DuPage Blue, said his party has finally broken the Republican party's "stranglehold" on the county.

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http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=130109&src=2

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. DuPage GOPers were also notorioiusly corrupt. I hope their Dems fare better

But Illinois has a sleaze-pol problem from before the creation of this flat earth.

[TheDoorbellRang]

2. Wow. And the comments afterwards were great, too

The people are finally waking up, and are they pissed. Ha!

[dogfacedboy]

3. The same thing is happening in Kane County.

I worked the polls on Tuesday in Elgin. More in my precinct voted Dem, despite it being historically Republican.People Want Change.

[AtLiberty]

4. If DuPage is blue, that Illinois is SOLID blue...

This is historic. DuPage County is the second most populated county in Illinois next to Cook.

For decades (a century? more?) DuPage has been Republican.

In fact, there has been an unwritten gentlemen's agreement for decades that Cook stays out of DuPage and DuPage stays out of Cook. They each were to have their own playground. This election proves that the people don't care for this agreement.