The Tuesday National Weather Service precipitation forecast shows a lot of dry states on Tuesday except South Carolina through Florida and Wisconsin, which looks like it will be getting terrible weather across the state, Eastern Iowa, a lot of Michigan, and Norther Illinois, including Chicago. Could be good for Romney, but he really needs Colorado, too.

National Weather Service forecast maps:

http://graphical.weather.gov/sectors/conus.php?element=PoP12

If America keeps Obama our future is far more certain than if we elect Romney - Obama will bring certain ruin. Hard to imagine so much is on the line.

From Chicago North west Rockford area I can attest that in rural area there is unprecedented early voting.
Yesterday the last day there were 1 hour lines.
In my are we never had any lines at all.
I am sure 90% of votes are RR votes.

How absolutely delicious if Illinois, home of Barack Obama went to Romney! What a startling repudiation of Mr. O's policies!

We in Illinois have been strangled by the Chicago style politics of Cook County and State Senate Majority Leader Mike Madigan, who is Illinois' very own Harry Reid.

He has blocked any kind of fiscal reform and has taken our state to the brink of bankruptcy. We need to get rid of him and maybe if turnout is down in Chicago, we'll have that opportunity.

When even the dead people in Chicago refuse to vote in their usual numbers, you know the Democrats are in big trouble in Illinois.

Note to out-staters: For the frist time in a generation your votes might actually matter. But only if you ALL vote on Tuesday.

Chicago? The fall-off in early voters is probably because so many of those who early-voted the last time....are dead.

"Mr. President, Mr. Axelrod on two."

"OK, Axe, you better 'have something' for me. 'Cause if I'm not gonna have that plane for four more years, I'd have skimmed a pile more off those campaiign contributions."

"Mr. President -- you know how much I like calling you 'Mr. President,' don't you, sir? -- I got a call. Today. From, uhh, from Chicago. Rahm."

"Ugh. He's disgusting. But at least I can count on him. 'Sup with Rahm, Axe?"

"Sir... sir... uhhh, sir..."

"Uh-oh. What?"

"Rahm lost the three tractor-trailers full of ACORN absentee and early-ballots sorry. G'bye, sir."

"Oh, G-d. If Michelle finds out-- no! If Val finds out! Oh, G-d! Helen! Helen! Get what's-his-name on the phon-- George? Yeah. George. I think. That ingrate in Indonesia. Wherever. Find out if he has a spare room. STAT."

There was an anti-Obama ad on TV in Chicago today! That's the first time since before I can remember that there was a TV ad in Illinois against a Democrat presidential candidate.

Soooo. either the Republican votes were mysteriously "lost" never to be found again, or there will be a HUGE number of ballots for Obama "found" after the preliminary count -- the exact amount depending on the outcome of that count.

Lot's of anti-Obama ads on Chicago radio...I FF all TV ads so I don't know about that.

My Southside Irish extended family, all police , firefighters and plumbers are now talking Romney. Obama taking on the Catholic Church is a MAJOR factor and the loyalty they always felt went to the Daley's, definitely NOT Rahm.

It was the first family get together in years where I felt I could speak my mind and believe me Benghazi was a HOT topic. I wish my parents were still here to witness their "enlightenment."

If Democrats don't produce in the City...the rest of the state...the RED part, will prevail.

Remember we elected a Repulican Senator and the Governor won by in a squeak. Brady should have contested.

Nothing good has happened here in a long time. Everybody is fed up...mad as heck.

Outside of the City proper we are the same people as our Midwestern brothers and sisters.

Could it be that the dead have stayed dead?

Naw, the dead in Cook county live.

If indeed "The Illinois Republican party claims" that the numbers 260,376 and 304,290 are larger than the numbers195,064 and 46,232, I'd have to say they are absolutely right?

Apparently, the obamaphone woman convinced early and absentee voters there was no need to turn out after they heard her razor-sharp assessment of Romney.

Black Chicago leaders have been angry at Obama for two years, and it has grown. And black ministers are furious over the gay marriage endorsement. Two things will come from that: many Chicago blacks will not vote, and of those who do vote many will only vote in the down-ticket races, not the presidential race. Add in a bunch of angry Chicago Irish, Italian, Polish, and Hispanic Catholics, and you get the ingredients for a perfect storm of anti-Obama sentiment on election day. They don't have to vote for Romney. All they have to do is NOT vote for Obama, and the tsunami of Romney votes from suburban Cook County and downstate will deliver Illinois for Romney. No one is polling Illinois. No one sees it coming. Watch.

I would be pleased but astounded if Romney won. What I see as more likely is a razor thin victory for Obama akin to the 0.18% margin by which Walter Mondale carried Minnesota in 1984. For Obama to lose outright would cost the Democrat machine to lose face and they still control all the levers of power.

#17...You are talking about winning just IL, right?
I can concede IL as part of the 10 states Obama carries

Had problems when posting this article. My first thought when I read this was that the Dem's know they are bleeding big time since 0bama was elected. My guess is that they are willing to let him lose in order to save themselves in down-ticket races.

...#16 hits on a point that has been brewing. Could be leading up to a major WOW moment...

...what may happen there could well be repeated elsewhere. There has be a whole lot of assuming going on with the numbers. Would love to see some "earthquake" action taking place for the sake of the country...

I live in conservative DuPage County, one of the collar counties surrounding Chicago. None of the collar counties will vote for Obama, and neither will Cook County, which surrounds the City of Chicago itself. All my friends that live in towns within Cook County can't stand Obama. Keep an eye on Illinois. The Obama regime might wake up to a very big surprise, right in their own backyard.

It will be interesting to see the races in the newly drawn congressional districts and several of the state senate races. Because the city lost population in the last census, some of the Dems lost a portion of their safe Chicago base that gets gerrymandered into every seat. They are running a bit more now in the suburbs and even local Dems are getting disgusted with the state's fiscal demise. They are getting tired of jobs moving out of state, many aren't going very far just across the borders to Indiana and Wisconsin taking jobs away.