Attorney General Lisa Madigan has decided to run for her AG post again in 2010 instead of running for governor or senator. I had really hoped she'd run for senator since, despite her being the probably front-runner for governor, I'm not sure if Illinois would have gone for the governor being the daughter of the House Speaker. We in the Prairie State love our dynasty governments (this just in: Dennis Hastert's son is running for Hastert's old seat) but I'm sure there's limits to that.
But senator? Would have been a piece of cake. Now the Democratic candidate will probably be Alexi Giannoulias which means that I'm gonna have to vote for probable GOP candidate Mark Kirk.