see local news. i do the same thing with local television stations. how do you think this kind of thing would play in the great state of illinois, if people learned that this was the kind of shenanigans going on in washington. not well. let me tell you a firm grasp of the obvious. we still have 99 days to go. we re not sure what s going to happen. we journalists tend to find odd constructs, make dubious distinctions when reality is can be pretty obvious it s going to be a matter of how popular the president is and what kind of campaigns are being run. the illinois sixth district is the sort of district that a lot of us think is going to be key, even though a colleague of jeremy s made a case today that there s a different sort of district, namely a more working class, rural district that trump won rather than well enducated districts like the sixth. peter is running against a totally novice democrat, and as