You might have noticed that the steady flow of posts here has turned into more of a slow drip in the last week. Sorry about that. A lot has happened lately on my side of things in the last couple of weeks: I ended my internship with TPM, I moved a few thousand miles (again), I managed to get a sweet new job, and I’ve been scrambling to finish my Christmas shopping.
So, I think now is as good a time as any to take a break. We might make a few occasional updates if the mood strikes, but the Swing State Project is officially taking the rest of the year off.
Happy holidays, everyone!
Notable User Diaries
Because we forgot to do this last week, we belatedly present the cream of the crop for the week of 12/15 – 12/21:
- Benawu takes stock of Ohio, where the Jan. 4th filing deadline looms. He finds that four GOP-held House seats lack confirmed Democratic challengers. Time’s running out!
- David Kowalski passes along the news that GOP Reps. Mary Bono (CA-45) and Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy (FL-14) (better known as Connie Mack IV) recently married. Will the strains of a maintaining a three-city lifestyle push either Republican into an early retirement? And what might this mean for Dem prospects? David has some thoughts.
Wish you a very happy holiday and new career.
But it will be a LONG week with no Swing State updates. I feel like a junkie in need of my news fix. You are causing withdrawal symptons.
By the by. Have you read the recent articles that predict the imminent demise of the Republican party? Each one better than the last. I just laugh and laugh and hope that 2008 sticks a stake through the heart of the GOP.
Such marriages can be problematic. In 1976, Martha Keys of Kansas married Andy Jacobs of Indiana. The fact that she married a man from another state was used against her by her Republican opponent and she lost a campaign for reelection. The marriage ended in divorce in the early 1980s.
Susan Molinari and Bill Paxon were another Congressional couple. Although they both represented New York districts (she from Staten Island; he from the Buffalo suburbs), it is my understanding that the difficulty of maintaining such a marriage was one of the reasons she resigned from Congress.