The good news for Illinois Democrats is that they do not need their governor, Rod Blagojevich, to be a star. The state party already has plenty of those: from Richard Daley, the mayor who has helped to restore Chicago's lustre, and Rahm Emanuel, who heads the national party's congressional campaign committee, to Senator Barack Obama. The bad news, however, is that state Democrats do need Mr Blagojevich to hang on to the governor's seat in next year's election.
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