Keyes Down 39 Points On Day One

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The first poll to come out from the Obama v. Keyes "race" for the Senate show Alan getting spanked.

IF REPUBLICAN ALAN KEYES & DEMOCRAT BARACK OBAMA WERE THE ONLY TWO CANDIDATES ON THE BALLOT IN IL FOR THE U.S. SENATE & THERE WAS A HYPOTHETICAL VOTE TODAY, OBAMA WINS 67% TO 28%, IN A SURVEY OF 612 REGISTERED IL VOTERS CONDUCTED 8/6-8/7 BY SURVEYUSA.

ALL INTERVIEWS COMPLETED BEFORE KEYES MADE HIS FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT YESTERDAY.

AFRICAN AMERICANS GO 9:1 FOR OBAMA. WHITES GO 2:1 FOR OBAMA. 27% OF REPUBLICANS CROSS-OVER & VOTE OBAMA, COMPARED TO 4% OF DEMOCRATS WHO CROSS OVER & VOTE KEYES. INDEPENDENTS BREAK 2:1 FOR OBAMA. OBAMA GETS 74% OF FEMALE VOTE, 59% OF MALE VOTE.

KEYES GETS 38% DOWNSTATE & 39% IN RURAL IL. KEYES GETS 16% IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO.

The more voters learn about Alan Keyes the fewer votes will actually come out to vote for him. I put money on Keyes not breaking 20% come November 2.

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Christina said:

I applaud the Illinois Republican part for injecting some high comedy into the election season.

Did you see Denny Hastert on Meet the Press?

And then you got to go down to the second and third and fourth levels. I spent five weeks trying to find good people, everywhere from a good state senator that we had by the name of Steve Rauschenberger, who I thought he could have...

MR. RUSSERT: But you're drafting someone from another state.

REP. HASTERT: But wait. Wait. Well, let me go down through the process. And, you know, he didn't have enough money. I talked to Mike Ditka, and I decided maybe he made a good decision. I talked to a guy name Gary Fenzig, who was a great star, Harvard-Yale, star for the Chicago Bears. He couldn't. And the problem in Illinois, you've got to have $10 million to run; $6 million or $7 million of that has to be done for name I.D. I got down last week to interviewing a 70-year-old guy, who was a great farm broadcaster in Illinois. He decided since his health problems--he couldn't do it. You know, we were down--we needed to find somebody to run, somebody who wanted to run. And, you know, Alan Keyes wants to run, and I hope he's a good candidate.

Later Hastert finally says "I was out of town" when they drafted Keyes

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