He is attractive, always well groomed, an excellent campaigner, prodigious at fund raising trail and can put together a tremendously effective political ad campaign.  He has a compelling personal story.  Although he had a legislative career of few if any accomplishments, he ran for executive office on a platform of progressive populist change and anti corruption.  No one was exactly sure what kind of leader he would turn out to be, but it was a Democrat year, with veteran leadership in command of overwhelming majorities in both the House and the Senate. Thus political analysts asked themselves, just how bad could he turn out to be? No, I am not writing about Barack Obama.  According to Mr. Un-Popularity, an article by David Bernstein from the February 2008 issue of Chicago magazine, the above neatly summarizes the 2002 gubernatorial campaign of Rod Blagojevich.  I found other similarities. ...(Read Full Post)