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The 1986 IL Senate election, a comanding Reelection for Senator Alan Dixon against weak oposition allowed the Senator—the at the time longest careered Statewide Illinois elected—a second term over Republican Judy Koehler
Here, Dixon—a Moderate who didn't always vote in a liberal or Pro-Labor Manner, throughout his career and this race—championed the Line Item Veto, more Federal funds for Illinois and Stopping Millitary Waste.
In an attempt to win, Koehler played up her connections to the ever popular ronald Reagan whilst comparing Dixon to Radical "cult-like" Lincoln LaRouche in an advertisement which backfired as Dixon had no discernible connections to LaRouche
In the end, Dixon won because of his inmense popularity and Koehler's severe underfunding, making it so that not even the divisions in the Illinois Democratic Party that occured in 1986 could topple him—resulting in his crushing reelection for him.
- Data and Shapefile from Harvard's Record of American Democracy: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/road
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