A Seat We Can Flip - In February

Dennis Hastert is going home to spend more time with his sausages. And that sets up a special election for early next year in IL-14 (probably coinciding with their Febraury 5 Presidential primary, and with Obama involved in it I'd expect a crisp Democratic turnout). This is a seat with two good challengers on the Democratic side, John Laesch and Bill Foster, both of whom have been very aggressive in their fundraising and netroots outreach.

This is a tremendous opportunity to pick up another seat in the Midwest and get a better Democrat in there, especially if Laesch can make it through.