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The unemployment rate is a full point higher than the rest of the country. you are about to make the case that the economy doesn't matter in illinois for this vote. >> the national economy matters. the question is which of these two men do they see has the skill set to deal with the issue. and you have a cultural divide if you will. you have chicago and the chicago suburbs where the idea of a successful business leader like mitt romney is attractive. then you have down state where the rural parts tend to be socially conservative and they like the idea of somebody who has the hard-edged rhetori...

Down-state. governor romney is running a little better with the city of chicago where voters are more moderate. >> again, santorum will be handicapped in the delegate chase, ineligible for delegates because no slate submitted on four congressional districts. it could have been worse. most of santorum's illinois delegates failed to collect the minimum number of signatures to get on the ballot. >> way short. submited 100 signatures. i have a problem with the process so i'm not criticizing the santorum people. they were woefully short. >> the state g.o.p. chairman with pressure from the social co...

Just a little bit up towards the northwest. i think my mouth is freezing as it melts and freezes a little bit. i want to bring in ivan clark here. you're the public works director here. you guys have your hands full today to clear all this out. >> we have a mess on our hands. that's for sure. >> i know you guys get storms like this but a storm that stays this windy this long, does that make it more difficult? >> it's pretty wide open country in this area. we're accustomed to working with these kinds of conditions. the wind doesn't help matters much. i know the state department and the highway ...

2,000 days of closing citing oil being harmful to your health from long-term exposure from skin irritation and cancer and stomach turning and seeing the oil disaster is just tremendous in terms of causing damage to the environment and to the economy. all of the beaches were rated on a five star system, and these shows you the things they were rated on, effect from the quality of the water to what it's done in the past to how often they test the water and how often they issue advisories and whether or not they post those things online. we can break this down state by state for you, and this is ...

For the democrats. the 14th district, it's where down state illinois begins. when you hear people talking about down state. democrat bill foster shocked the state with his upset win in a special election. can he hold in lean republican district in a year like this? we shall see. denis hastert's son, by the way, is running. this is dennis hastert's hold house seat. the eighth district, held by democrat melissa bean. republicans have been trying to win it back forever. this is the first chance they're going to get in a bad democratic climate. we shall see how she does. and in the 11th district, ...