I’m sure by now you’ve read all the exciting details regarding Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, his arrest, and the pending corruption charges for trying to sell the keys to the United States Senate seat recently vacated by Barack Obama.

While the story itself is exciting political drama, the history of political corruption in Illinois is something that is even more profound.

Here are just a few other examples of political corruption in the state of Illinois over the last few years:

• 2007 – Chicago Alderman Arenda Troutman (D) was charged with bribery
• 2006 – Former Illinois Governor, George Ryan (R), was found guilty on all counts brought forward by the federal government in a case stemming from the illegal sale of government contracts and leases.
• 2006 – Chicago City Clerk Jim Laski (D) pleaded guilty to pocketing bribes for steering city business to trucking Read the rest of this entry »

As the conclusion of the 2008 Presidential Election appears to be less than 48 hours away (assuming there wont be another relapse of Florida, 2000), there are still many questions that Senator Barack Obama has failed to answer directly on the campaign trail.

Over the next day, we’ll be covering a variety of these questions as asked throughout the election cycle by a variety of organizations an publications. Ideally, we’ll have a new question listed at the top of every hour, so please check back frequently.

If you know that Obama has in fact answered these questions, simply reply to them in the comments section with a link to cite your claims. If in fact Senator Obama did address these questions, we will update the post and give credit where it is due.

Finally, if there are questions that didn’t think Senator Obama answered, please ask them in the comments section, and we’ll try and integrate them into our posts.