Charlie Cook has moved the Illinois Senate race between Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk out of the toss-up column. The announcement comes three days after Giannoulias’s family bank failed:
Given recent events, it’s impossible to justify keeping the race in the Toss Up column. While current circumstances would seem to lend themselves to a rating of Likely Republican, we know that it’s entirely possible that we could well be dealt a different hand – and a very different race – a month or two from now. As such, the race moves to the Lean Republican column.
