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in Illinois, Bush ran 2 points ahead of where he ran in he said. While Democrats nationally try to figure out what went wrong, Republicans are undergoing a similar process in Illinois, said Gary Brandt, a computer systems developer who had posted a Bush-Cheney lawn sign in largely Democratic Oak Park. He relished a national victory but wondered how to turn around state losses. Republican Party has a lot of soul-searching to said Brandt. One possible reason Illinois parted from national results is that it exposed to the same presidential campaign intensity that swing states saw, said Ed Sadlowski, a retired steelworker and union official from Chicago.

Sadlowski went to Wheeling, W.Va., to ring doorbells on behalf of Kerry, and the campaign there centered on matters such as abortion rights and same-sex marriage. was just massive playing on emotions, scare disgracefully he said. Illinois you seeing ads just day in and day out. Scurrilous damn Still contentious Some Republicans responded with glee to Democratic discomfort. Alayna Bolinger, a sophomore at Mt.

Vernon Nazarene University in Ohio, strolled along Michigan Avenue late last week in a bright red coat decorated with a button of face and the letter A conservative Christian, Bolinger said she admired Bush because of morals, and It bother her that she was advertising her politics in Cook County, where 70 percent of the voters punched their ballots for Kerry. just think Bush is a great she said. says what he At Northwestern University on Friday, about 200 Kerry supporters held a rally to console each other. Many of the students wore and buttons. hard to realize the level of conservatism in this said Sarah Sullivan, 20, a junior theater and English major who helped organize the rally, most of my friends feel the same way I The protest was countered by 20 conservative students who held signs.

James Gelfand, 21, a senior and political science major, said he never even hoped to turn out as many students as the pro-Kerry since Tuesday over the conservative trend in the politics. But for many in Illinois, especially in Chicago, it is natural to be a more liberal bastion. And it is dominance that makes the state blue. think Chicago is out of step with the rest of the said Don Tanagi, 63, who sells George Bush playing cards Stacked and books such as at the City Newsstand on Cicero Avenue on the Northwest Side. think the rest of the country is out of step with Traditional Democrats For decades, machine politics helped get out the Democratic vote in Chicago.

More recently, factors such as disarray in the state GOP kept Illinois from becoming a red, or Bush, state. Exit polls Tuesday indicated that just 27 percent of Illinois voters consider themselves compared with 34 percent nationally. Outside Chicago, there is plenty of red in Illinois. Just 13 percent in southern Illinois described themselves as according to exit polls, compared with 33 percent in the city. In collar counties, 21 percent said they were liberals.

Ideological appeals tend to not work in Illinois, where more practical politicians, such as Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, tend to succeed, said John Jackson, a political scientist at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Also, the Democratic Party has reached out to suburbs in ways it 10 years ago. Democratic Party in this state has been about fairly pragmatic, lunch- bucket Jackson said. Some panic, some stoicism Across the blue swaths of the Northeast and West Coast, re-election was accompanied in some circles by near panic. Some overexcited Democrats talked about moving to Canada or France, as if pogroms were expected against those who had posted Kerry-Edwards lawn signs.

But at Ukrainian Village Restaurant, where mounted elk heads and a stuffed bear gaze down on the bar, a handful of Ukrainian-Americans who voted for Kerry faced the new political landscape stoically. Julian Jurynec, 75, has adhered to political loyalties shaped soon after he arrived in the United States in 1958 and got a job as a traffic counter. vote all the time he said. got a job from a Democrat when I came here, and I stayed that Down the bar, John Horodecki, 49, president of the Ukrainian American Club, shared his theory about why Illinois is a blue state. the industrialized north- group did.

200 conservatives at this whole he said. It was only a slight exaggeration at a campus where votes at the three polling places favored Kerry, 77 percent to 21percent. At Taqueria Los Primoson the West Side, Teresa Valenzuela, emigrated from Mexico when she was she cast her vote for Kerry. The senator inspire her, she said, but she surprised that Illinois bucked the conservative trend. are more for the working she said.

On a down-and-out stretch of North Laramie Avenue, Randy Scarver, 37, a self-employed home remodeler, said he is bewildered by the national vote. personally, I know why Bush is back in there, because a lot of people were so about the he said, referring to the fighting in Iraq. Hussein doing nothing to us. He was killing his own people. Let him kill his own Behind the locked doors of Beauty Salon nearby, there was no talk of protesting or fleeing to Canada.

Owner Kim Payne, 46, sat playing dominos with a worker as she waited for customers. She voted for Kerry at her polling place at New Galilee Missionary Baptist Church next door, she said, but she trust the election results, although her suspicion did not appear to be based on any reported irregularities. happens to the ballots once you slide them she said. been thinking half our votes even get As another hairdresser washed a young hair across the room, Payne called to him, you he said sheepishly. why Bush Tribune staff reporter John McCormick and Sean Hamill in Evanston contributed to this report.

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U.S. DemocratRepublican Note: 2000 results unnoficial Voters nationwide gave President Bush a 3 percentage-point victory in the popular vote, while Illinois voters continued their trend of backing the Democratic candidate. Illinois remains on the side of the Democrats POLITICS: But even in Illinois, Bush made inroads CONTINUEDFROMPAGE1 think Chicago is out of step with the rest of the nation. I think the rest of the country is out of step with Tanagi, 63, on Democratic leanings.