I told you (here) this would be the case.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A new poll shows Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich with a 15 percentage point lead over Republican challenger Judy Baar Topinka, garnering 44 percent support versus her 29 percent.Corruption is now officially a political fact of life when it comes to governors in Illinois. Voters have moved on and are looking for other reasons to support candidates since it seems inevitable there is going to be some degree of skirting of (or flat-out breaking) the law involved with running the state.
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The problem for the Republicans is that they picked someone too tied to the old political system who has herself been investigated for corruption more than once. You can't run on a reform platform when you've been investigated for using your state employees to do political work on state time and for handing out special favors to major Republican fundraisers. Blagojevich might have had a hard time had the Republicans picked someone with a clean record not tied to state government. They could have hardly picked a worse nominee.
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