There are no good choices. The challengers are generally people who have heard that Chicago&#x2F;Illinois are great places to feed. In Chicago, there&#x27;s The Machine: a system for raising large numbers of votes for Duh Mare&#x27;s candidates from people who don&#x27;t care who wins, they just want their Alderman to respond to their phone calls. Outsiders like Blagojevich and Rauner at the state level are just as awful.<p>The amount of Republican pond scum that Illinois has had to deal with easily compares to the amount of Democratic pond scum that it has had to deal with, it&#x27;s just a matter of upstate&#x2F;downstate&#x2F;collar counties preference which scumbag you vote for. They&#x27;re all ultimately friends anyway; I think Emanuel once worked for Rauner.