These are the best of times for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady of Bloomington.
"For Brady, this is all a benefit because he'd like to see the others fight it out," said Chris Mooney, a political scientist at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
"The fact that there are seven candidates now means that no one has been able to clear the field," said Kent Redfield, another University of Illinois at Springfield political scientist. "But in the cold light of day they're going to look at what it costs to do media buys and someone is going to drop out."
Mooney and Redfield were featured in an October 18, 2009 article in the Champaign News-Gazette.
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