text: <<A majority of his votes were white, although he did not win the white vote.>>
  
  Yes, thank you for that pithy formulation and for your comments.
  
  I used to have an article bookmarked that described the byzantine politics of that Illinois bill. But what difference would it make. Right-wing so-called Christians are determined to slander a decent man as an unscrupulous monster. And voted for an unscrupulous monster in the name of virtue.