Give Thanks This Election Season For The Illinois Racing Form

   As we prepare for Thanksgiving, I’d like to suggest something to spice up your feast: the Illinois Racing Form.



       The Racing Form has maps of the state’s 59 senate and 118 house districts. It breaks the populations of those districts down by race, ethnicity, income, and age, and by how the districts voted in the 2014 gubernatorial and state’s attorney general races.



       Rauner doesn’t have enough votes to pass a budget, so hasn’t really tried.



       However, the Illinois AFP “is a subset of the larger group founded by the conservative and incredibly wealthy Koch Brothers, Americans for Prosperity,” as Politico’s Natasha Korecki recently put it.



       For instance, a house Democrat named Martin Moylan represents the 55th District in Des Plaines. And Democrat Lisa Madigan—the speaker’s daughter—won 61 percent of the vote in her 2014 race out in that district.



       The 82nd is represented by Republican Jim Durkin, Rauner’s house floor leader. Maybe Speaker Madigan should talk Lisa into moving to Willow Springs to give Durkin a run for his money.