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It certainly doesn’t seem like there’s much time to make a drama out of the Illinois senate race. But comedy, it seems, is still a possibility.

The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that the Illinois GOP is now trying to draft Alan Keyes to run against Barack Obama for the seat being vacated by retiring Senator Peter Fitzgerald.

According to a member of the Illinois Republican State Central Committee, Keyes, a Maryland resident, “said that he was open to the idea. And he felt that Obama didn’t really represent the views of the people of Illinois.”

For more on Keyes, the self-proclaimed ‘Quintessential American’, see this page on his website.

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