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Article: Democrats who did win big in DuPage County on Tuesday.(News)(DuPage columnist)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- November 12, 2006
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Byline: John Zimmerman
Guess who got the most votes, overall, in DuPage County on Tuesday? Your instincts might lead to you surmise it's Judy Baar Topinka. That's what you'd logically expect in a Republican stronghold like DuPage County.
And you would be wrong.
Topinka's 127,810 votes weren't enough to give her the title of top vote-getter.
So you say it's Topinka's running mate, DuPage County State's Attorney Joe Birkett.
Perhaps. Birkett is a well-known, home-grown candidate who quite expectedly did very, very well in DuPage County in his unsuccessful bid for Illinois attorney general four years ago. Problem is, vote totals ...