I figured it was something like that. And it's not like Illinois has never had a Republican governor in living memory -- didn't the incumbent unseat or follow a moderate GOP guy? And before that was Blagojevich. The media seems to have a very short memory on this subject. All politics is local.

The national picture on the proposition front is quite encouraging -- minimum wage hikes passed all over the place (including SF, which is going to $15/hr), more marijuana legalization, other good things. So yeah, I'm not freaking out as hard as I otherwise might be.