Jeff Trigg has a post about Cook County’s write-in votes over at Illinoize. I second his suggestion that you check out the list for yourself. The only thing I have to add is two small observations:

1) Lovie Smith got more write-in votes than Mike Ditka! (wow!)

2) Despite the fact that Topinka, Blagojevich, and Whitney were all officially on the ballot … they still got write in votes. Explain that one.