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Big government is not simply the size of the budget, or the number of federal programs; it is the role the federal government plays in our daily lives.
We at the Lincoln Heritage Institute will not sit idly by and allow bloated bureaucracies, budensome tax policies, a failing public education system, and out of control regulatory system, and a growing disregard for the rule of law to become an accepted way of life.
We have as our purpose, through public education, the revitalization and preservation of our traditional political, social, commercial, and legal environment in which the only limits to achievement are individual ability and effort. |
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Shades of Purple |
by John McCaslin, Inside the Beltway
Why are Democrats and Republicans alike in Washington so fascinated by the race for a local board president in Cook County, Illinois? Because a Republican candidate, Tony Peraica, actually is leading in a county where Democrats outnumber Republicans almost 3-to-1.
A survey last month by the Tarrance Group put Mr. Peraica ahead of Democrat Todd Stroger by a margin of four percentage points – 42 percent to 38 percent. Helping propel the Republican, no doubt, is the fact that Mr. Stroger arrived late on the ballot – stepping in for his father, incumbent board President John Stroger, after he suffered a stroke.
“With 5.5 million residents, Cook County is the second-largest county in the entire nation,” Chicago-based political campaign operative Bill Pascoe informs Inside the Beltway. “In Illinois politics, roughly 6 in 10 voters in the entire state live right here in this one county.”
And, he adds, the last time a Republican won the presidency of the Cook County Board of Commissioners was 1966. “His name was Dick Ogilvie. His next job was governor,” says Mr. Pascoe. “If Republicans can build a coalition with independents and reform-minded Democrats to win in Cook County in 2006, then Illinois' dark-blue tint automatically turns purple in terms of 2008 at the presidential and U.S. Senate level.”
Which could mean? “Illinois would be vaulted back into the ranks of major battleground states in the presidential race, second in size only to Florida among the swing states,” he says.
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