Illinois Senate Results: Kirk Wins Election 2010

What a night it was for the voters of Illinois. The State presented some of the races in this election of 2010. As election results come in, not clarity, at least for the Illinois governor's race.
First let's start with the seat in the Senate. The race between the Republican candidate Mark Kirk and Democratic candidate Alexi Giannoulias is expected to be very tight, however, pre-election polls indicated that Kirk was ahead by about 2%. After 93% of the vote in Illinois have been counted, Kirk led the race from 48% to 46% in Giannoulias, and is expected to win the seat for Republicans. Illinois was one of the states pull until the Republicans had hoped to walk away with, unless a miraculous turn around, seems to have done just that.
Illinois governor's race is too close to call, on their part. Pat Brady Quinn and Bill are in a virtual tie at 46% of the votes each. Quinn has a slight lead with 1,694,196 votes, compared to 1,685,847 for Brady, but with 7% of the precincts have not reported this morning, this remains the choice of anyone. The pre-election polls had suggested that Brady actually had a slight lead over Democrat, Quinn, by about 5%, so this is a bit of a surprise for the Democrats.