What's at stake for you today Your vote today will help shape decisions about our economic future and death penalty moratorium.(News)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November, 2002 | by Krol, Eric

Byline: Eric Krol and John Patterson Daily Herald Staff Writers It's all on the line in Illinois today. For the first time in 20 years, voters will get to elect a governor and six other state officials at the same time every state House and Senate seat is up for grabs in newly drawn districts.

Nationally, the electorate will decide whether President Bush defies mid-term history by preserving the GOP's slim control of the U.S. House while hoping to tilt the Senate's precarious balance his party's way. The choices voters make will have both short- and long-term impacts on their pocketbooks and costs of their daily commute, whether executions resume and how a scandal-ridden state government is cleaned up. Decision day comes after two months of mostly...