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How one Midwest town echoes the country’s election
Champaign, Illinois, is a county that isn’t known to many who aren’t associated with the University of Illinois, but it’s a microcosm of what’s happening in this country during the current election.
Inside the college town of Champaign-Urbana, you have a largely democratic population who is fed up with the current administration. The surrounding areas are a much different matter. That is mostly made up of farmland — and is predominantly conservative, and republican.
Many parts of the country is currently divided between these two groups. There’s no longer a middle ground and, in some places, this has gone as far as leading to violence, such as the explosive devices sent to prominent democrats.
Within Champaign, the most closely watched election is between incumbent Republican Rodney Davis and Democratic challenger Betsy Dirksen Londrigan. The polls of the 13th District over the last month have shown the congressional candidates evenly match, recently as close as 42%-42%.
It is not only the demographic in Champaign that is echoing the sentiment of the country, it’s the issues. Front and center is the healthcare battle.
It is an indisputable fact that, on May 4, 2017, Congress voted to approve the American Health Care Act. It is also fact…
