Many Illinois Democrats are calling for a special election to fill the Senate seat that Barack Obama is vacating and that Rod Blagojevich attempted to sell; that includes the leaders of both houses of the state legislature, which probably makes a special election inevitable. Contra Jim Geraghty’s reader, I wouldn’t count on Jim Edgar running; the Illinois GOP has tried before to get Edgar to come out of retirement before and he hasn’t seemed interested. Liberal Republican Congressman Mark Kirk is considering a run, however, and he’d be a strong candidate.
