Democrat voters re-elect Democrat politician

Ho-hum, you say. But this example of Democrat democracy is unusually corrupt.

Dem voters in Illinois's 2nd Congressional district (Obama 90% last Tuesday), which includes the southeast areas of Chicago, re-elected Jesse Jackson Jr.

Jackson, is the son of shake-down artist and race-baiting con man Jesse 'never ran nothin' but his mouth' Jackson Sr.

Jackson Jr. didn't even have to campaign to win his seat in the US Congress from this gaggle of Democrat voters. He has been under federal investigation for corruption (:0), and is negotiating for a plea deal that reportedly will include prison time. This is, however, no hinderance to winning a landslide in a deep blue Democrat district. Jackson spent much of the past few months in the Mayo Clinic with a diagnosis of "bipolar disorder", likely meaning that he had difficulty deciding whether to take the bribes in checks or money orders. Quandaries can be emotionally exhausting...

Jackson replaced Dem Congressmen Mel Reynolds. Reynolds' bio:

In August 1994, Reynolds was indicted for sexual assault and criminal sexual abuse for engaging in a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer that began during the 1992 campaign.[1] Despite the charges, he continued his campaign and was re-elected that November; he had no opposition.[1] Reynolds initially denied the charges, which he claimed were racially motivated. On August 22, 1995, he was convicted on 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography. He resigned his seat on October 1 of that year.[2]

Reynolds was sentenced to five years in prison, thus he expected to be released in 1998. However, in April 1997 he was convicted on 15 unrelated counts of bank fraud and lying toSEC investigators. These charges resulted in an additional sentence of 78 months in federal prison. Reynolds served all of his first sentence, and served 42 months in prison for the later charges. At that point, President Bill Clinton commuted the sentence for bank fraud. However, Reynolds had never applied for presidential clemency, which is the first step to be considered for a presidential pardon. As a result, Reynolds was released from prison and served the remaining time in a halfway house.[3][4]

Jackson and Reynolds follow the tradition of Illinois Democrats from the Chicago political machine. As several wags have noted, if you have been elected governor of deep blue Illinois you a greater chance of going to prison than if you commit murder in Illinois.

On a unrelated story, a Democrat pol who thrived in the same Illinois Democrat political machine for the past two decades was just re-elected President.