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Prediction: If it rains downstate but is clear in Chicago, Sen.
Good news for Moseley-Braun in USA Today . Chicago, her stronghold, will have dry weather, and heavily Republican downstate Illinois will be soaked.
Third, the candidate will tack left, then right in an attempt to gather votes from both downstate liberals and upstate conservatives-and will have it both ways, pandering to minorities one day and distancing herself the next.
Result: It rained downstate but not in Chicago.
The new forecast says Chicago weather will be "dismal," just as bad as it is downstate.