Every Illinois County Voted Against The Constitutional Convention

A Progress Illinois analysis of the 2008 general election results found that every county in the state voted heavily against the proposed 2010 constitutional convention. This isn't a huge surprise, considering that the referendum was defeated by over a 30 percent margin at the statewide level. Nonetheless, the lack of variance is pretty striking.

As we were collecting the data, I wondered if we'd end up finding one idiosyncratic little county that bucked the trend. But no dice. In fact, only a single county -- Alexander, located at the southern tip of the state -- saw more than 40 percent vote in favor of Con-Con (42.6 percent to be exact).

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I have to admit even though I studied the issue and planned on
voting "No," every time I saw Jim Edgar on the tube telling me to do
so, made me want to vote, "Yes." Jim Edgar! Are you kidding?

Jim Edgar, the Gov., who got away scott free from criminal charges.
Each time he is in the press, I have hopes someone in Justice is
going to finally take this guy into a courtroom.