My Governor is a total Rod...

[ICantSpellDawg]

Yeah a Special Election is the best bet... I honestly don't know why it isn't like that anyway. An interesting theory for how Blagojevich could get out of it from here:

"Probably the only thing he could do now to make sure the new senator gets a clean start is to ask Obama himself to make a suggestion and then follow it, but that is unlikely, especially since Blagojevich has not admitted to any wrongdoing."

I don't believe that Obama will come out of this as clean as you expect. Blagojevich was his very good buddy. I hope that there is a fast honeymoon.

Let the decay of the Democratic party begin.

Special elections are a fine ideas. Runoffs should be more common.