Illinois Super Saturday: The First Domino to Fall?

We got a hint of the avalanche headed toward the Republicans in November in Illinois where Democrat Bill Foster beat Republican Jim Oberweis to succeed former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.

The district has been reliably Republican. Hastert has won by large margins for more than 20 years but perhaps more importantly, George W. Bush won the 14th Congressional District with 55 percent of the vote in 2004 and 54 percent in 2000.

Illinois is considered to be a fairly reliable state to vote for the democratic candidate in the general election, but this race is widely seen as an indication of the huge level of frustration with the current administration and the overall status quo on a wide variety of issues.

Barack Obama campaigned for Foster. Now Obama picks up another super delegate.