Tomorrow's Election

Today's Gail Collins column had an interesting note at the bottom it:

This column appeared exclusively in the Web edition of The New York Times on February 1, 2010.

It was a better column about tomorrow's election in Illinois than I've seen anywhere, including the Chicago Tribune and the Sun-Times. Hey, those papers have to try to survive in Chicago. Gail Collins doesn't.

Collins failed to mention that we've got former Governor Blagojevich's sister-in-law running for office, too. She is another daughter of the Chicago councilman that helped put Blago into office in the first place.

The local television and radio stations should have a very nice rainy-day fund by now, considering all the political ads they've been running, and they're nearly all negative, of course. There are some real crack-pots running for office (the Republicans) and some real sleeze-balls (the Democrats). It's a tough choice (not).

What a wonderful city.

Races to watch:

Does Mark Kirk (R) get skunked by the Tea Party candidate in the Republican Senatorial primary? (I doubt it.)

Does Joe Laiacona beat Deb Mell (the sister-in-law) for State Representative? (I doubt it. This is Chicago.)

Does Alexi Giannoulias, the 33-year-old "bank executive" whose bank is under federal oversight, get the Democratic Senatorial nomination to take Obama's seat? Is this the best the Democratic Party can offer up?

Does Dan Hynes, who went negative from Day 1 and gave the Repugnants lots of ammunition to use against his opponent, should the opponent win, beat Pat Quinn, who took the governor's chair when Blago was booted?

Oh, it's just too ugly.