As you no doubt know, tomorrow is the IL-14 special election to serve out former Speaker Dennis Hastert's final term in office and Democratic challenger Bill Foster is looking better and better to take the seat in this PVI R+5 district. Not only has Barack Obama endorsed Foster, even making an ad for him, but the most recent poll shows Foster up by 7 and to cap it all off, Foster's Republican opponent is, well, I'll let The Chicago Tribune tell it:

[...]we watched Oberweis in his races for the U.S. Senate in 2002 and 2004, and for governor in 2006. We've watched this race for Congress. His campaign style has consistently been nasty, smug, condescending ... and dishonest.

A perfect example is a mailer that the Oberweis campaign sent out, which featured an all-American nuclear family named the Wadsworths who, guess what? Again from The Chicago Tribune (a conservative paper, by the way...)

Jim Oberweis made up the Wadsworths!

He also made up Juan and Maria Garcia, a construction worker and a bank teller from Aurora who have three kids and haul in $54,778 a year. And DeKalb office manager Sheila Johnson, a divorced mother of two who makes $47,333. And Juan and Elena Marcos, who have a precious little baby boy and live on his $68,044 salary.

They're all pictured in a mailer for Oberweis' campaign for Congress in the 14th District. [...]

Total fiction. All of it. These people don't exist. They were created by Oberweis' campaign, which bought stock photos to use in the ad.

So the DCCC went on the attack with the following ad:

So what does Oberweis do? brownsox has it:

Needless to say, Oberweis didn't care for the ad. He couldn't really think of a good reason to complain, though...so he has his company, Oberweis Dairy, file suit against the DCCC, alleging that their ads were hurting business.

Now, this has backfired, as the DCCC has filed an FEC complaint against the Oberweis campaign for so using the resources of one's business to benefit one's campaign.

Classic.

Looks like an Oberweis implosion to me. We're lucky we have a solid candidate in Bill Foster, now we just need to make sure people turn out for this Saturday special election, likely to be a fairly low turnout election. Are you in-district, or even in-state? The campaign is looking for election day volunteers. This is an amazing opportunity to give the Republicans a taste of what's to come in November so help out however you can. I really want to be able to announce tomorrow night that we flipped this seat. As CQ reminds us:

Should Foster win -- and private and public polls suggest that is a plausible scenario -- it would mark the first time in nearly four years that a special election caused a shift in partisan control of a congressional district.