Voters still prefer GOP value system

Your front-page story reporting the change in voting trends from Republican to Democrat does offer a cause for great concern, especially to conservative activists such as myself.

One the one hand, I suppose, we should feel flattered, because Democrat voters, who once lived in an environment where Democrats have everything their way (Chicago), now prefer to live among Republicans. On the other hand, Republicans still represent the political goals and values which most voters in Illinois hold, including Democrats. A recent McLaughlin Poll brought this out.

For example, 91 percent of voters sampled favored requiring that all students in Illinois public schools who cannot read English be enrolled in English immersion classes so they can be taught to read and write in English at their grade level as soon as possible. Eighty-five percent want a new amendment to the Illinois state constitution to protect private property rights and prohibit government seizure. Seventy-five percent want the law to require doctors to notify parents before they can perform an abortion on an underage teenage girl.

Many voters in DuPage County may mark Democrat at the election booth, but at home they think and act as Republicans. Sooner or later, they will figure this out.

George Kocan

Warrenville