First let's start with the seat in the Senate. The race between the Republican candidate Mark Kirk and Democratic candidate Alexi Giannoulias is expected to be very tight, however, pre-election polls indicated that Kirk was ahead by about 2%. After 93% of the vote in Illinois have been counted, Kirk led the race from 48% to 46% in Giannoulias, and is expected to win the seat for Republicans. Illinois was one of the states pull until the Republicans had hoped to walk away with, unless a miraculous turn around, seems to have done just that.
Illinois governor's race is too close to call, on their part. Pat Brady Quinn and Bill are in a virtual tie at 46% of the votes each. Quinn has a slight lead with 1,694,196 votes, compared to 1,685,847 for Brady, but with 7% of the precincts have not reported this morning, this remains the choice of anyone. The pre-election polls had suggested that Brady actually had a slight lead over Democrat, Quinn, by about 5%, so this is a bit of a surprise for the Democrats.
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