I posted a comment in a previous diary about why I thought Dan Lipinski, an anti-choice, pro-war "Democrat" in Illinois' 3rd Congressional District, can't be beat in the upcoming Dem primaries. My main argument was the fact that, because our primaries don't have runoff elections or instant runoff voting, it is too easy for the machine to do exactly what they did last time -- put in a third candidate to split the anti-Lipinski vote so that Lipinski still ends up as the top vote getter, no matter how many people might like to see someone else in that seat. However, there were a couple of things that I was not taking into account when I wrote that comment that could make this a little more do-able than I thought.
Some hopefull speculations, a poll, and some facts about the district, below the fold ...
