Jeffj,
Funny, it is the same here in ILL.
Moving from Crook County, which is home of the Daley Democratic Machine, to any of the collar counties and the services are better. The schools are better, the police protection is better, etc.
Why? Simply because we don't have to pay for the incompetent Democratic Machine employees who spend more time rigging elections than delivering services to the people of the County.
WE also have great snow removal service, unlike Cook County. More health services, but then again we don't have State Senators like Barack Obama who voted against heath care funds for poor sick children. OUR State Senators care about the health of our children but don't tax us out of our homes in order to pay for it.
You don't see people living in cardboard boxes under bridges out here, even though we have poor people just like Chicago does.
If you ever get to Chi-Town take a drive down lower Wacker Drive and see all of the homeless people living down there. After all, the funds to help them are better spent on a giant chrome Lima Bean in Grant Park than helping those who really need the help.
THAT is the difference between Democratic Machine politics and ordinary Democrats or Republicans.
I still haven't heard ONE Obama worshipper ask why he has not released a SINGLE page of the letters he has received or written in EIGHT YEARS as a State Senator, while he has screamed long and loud for Hillary to release her records as First Lady. Nor have I heard him explain why he supposedly repudiated the support of the Nation of Islam yet he has Nation of Islam members WORKING for him in his Senate Office in DC.
When these people have been asked about their NOI memberships they have refused to discuss them.
While everyone has poo pooed Obama's association with Weather Underground memebers, NOBODY has spoken about his Communist Party of the USA lifelong friend Frank Marshall Davis, a man who he followed to Chicago when he moved here from Hawaii because he was so close with him. He even included him in his book, though he didn't mention that he was a member of the Communist Party of the USA and had been investigated repeatedly by the House Unamerican Activities Committee.
Another is Carl Davidson. Davidson is now a figure in the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, an offshoot of the old Moscow-controlled CPUSA, and helped organize the 2002 rally where Obama came out against the Iraq War.
But those are minor items for the man who hopes to have the power to defend America from the Soviets, North Koreans, Chinese and Cubans. After all, Obama is the ONLY Senator with a 100% rating from every ultra liberal organization.