Unpopular

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It sucks to be Bush.

SPRINGFIELD - Former Gov. George Ryan, who is scheduled to be sentenced on corruption charges this week, is one of the least-popular political figures in Illinois history.

Yet even Ryan - whose very name still casts an unwelcome shadow over his party in state politics - is better liked in the state than fellow Republican George W. Bush, according to a new The Southern Illinoisan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch Research 2000 poll conducted last week.

Wow. I say let Ryan go and begin the proceedings against the real criminal.