If you're interested in some of the political dynamics of the Bush on the ballot situation in Illinois, I've been in Springfield and blogged about it from my progressive perspective:

www.djwinfo.blogspot.com

(The bottom line is that the Bush campaign's decision to schedule the RNC convention in early September in clear violation of about a dozen state laws shouldn't be framed as a 'quirk' or 'technicality' in state laws that any reasonable observer would say ought be fixed. Instead, Democrats should decide whether to accommodate the hardball politics of the Bush Administration by changing state law or whether to play hardball right back. And it's interesting to see the media frame the question almost exclusively the first way).

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