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Rauner moves some numbers in gov bid

Back in early February, not a single person picked Bruce Rauner’s name in a Paul Simon Public Policy Institute poll of likely Republican primary voters. Other polls taken since then have shown the retired financier Rauner in the low single digits in his bid for governor. But Rauner has been dumping money into downstate TV, […]

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Daley takes his gloves off

I think a lot of people believed that if Bill Daley ran for governor his campaign would be as bland and vanilla as his public persona has been over the decades. Instead, he’s turned into the fieriest candidate in the race so far. Daley is even “out-angering” wealthy Republican financier Bruce Rauner, who has tried […]

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