The 2008 elections won’t only be notable for electing a Democratic President. The 2008 house races will give us a rare opportunity to increase our majority as well as test our defence.
It is great then to see candidates bobbing up and announcing so early in the cycle.
And the news on the filing front is great, courtesy of the 2008 Race Tracker Wiki. Take a look also at DCCritters.
Below the fold for all the news.
(cross posted at MyDD and Daily Kos)
277 races filled! six in the last 2 weeks alone. This of course includes 233 districts held by Democratic Congresscritters (yeh yeh I know some will not run but I am assuming we will find candidates in those districts!)
But we also have 44 GOP held districts with confirmed Democratic opponents.
So without further ado:
1) The GOP held districts with confirmed Democratic challengers are as follows:
AZ-02,
AZ-03,
AR-03,
CA-04,
CA-26,
CA-41, [In the event of a special election but he will run in 2008 methinks!]
CA-48,
CT-04,
FL-01,
FL-09,
FL-13, [Either through the House of Reps investigation or Jennings has committed to another run.]
FL-21,
FL-25,
GA-10 [SPECIAL ELECTION JUNE 19TH],
ID-01,
IL-10,
IL-14,
IN-06,
IA-04,
IA-05,
MI-07,
MN-06,
MO-09,
MT-AL,
NE-02,
NV-03,
NJ-07,
NJ-11,
NM-02,
NY-25,
NY-29,
NC-08,
NC-09,
OH-02,
OH-07,
OH-15,
PA-03,
PA-15,
TX-04,
TX-08,
TX-13,
VA-06,
WA-08,
WI-01,
2) The following 3 GOP held districts have candidates that are expected to run but are yet to confirm:
NJ-05,
OH-01,
OH-14,
3) We also have the following 37 GOP held districts have rumoured candidates – please note that some of these “rumours” are extremely tenuous!
AL-01,
AL-04,
AK-AL,
AZ-01,
AZ-06,
CA-03,
CA-42,
CA-45,
CO-04,
DE-AL,
FL-06,
FL-12,
KY-05,
MI-09,
MN-02,
MO-06,
NE-03,
NJ-02,
NJ-03,
NJ-04,
NM-01,
NY-03,
NY-13,
NY-26,
NC-03,
OH-16,
PA-06,
PA-18,
TN-07,
TX-02,
TX-03,
TX-10,
TX-14,
UT-03,
VA-01,
VA-11,
WV-02,
4) And last but not least the following 118 districts have not a single rumoured candidate:
AL-02,
AL-03,
AL-06,
CA-02,
CA-19,
CA-21,
CA-22,
CA-24,
CA-25,
CA-40,
CA-44,
CA-46,
CA-49,
CA-50,
CA-52,
CO-05,
CO-06,
FL-04,
FL-05,
FL-07,
FL-08,
FL-10,
FL-14,
FL-15,
FL-18,
FL-24,
GA-01,
GA-03,
GA-06,
GA-07,
GA-09,
GA-11,
ID-02,
IL-06,
IL-11,
IL-13,
IL-15,
IL-16,
IL-18,
IL-19,
IN-03,
IN-04,
IN-05,
KS-01,
KS-04,
KY-01,
KY-02,
KY-04,
LA-01,
LA-04,
LA-05,
LA-06,
LA-07,
MD-01,
MD-06,
MI-02,
MI-03,
MI-04,
MI-06,
MI-08,
MI-10,
MI-11,
MI-12,
MN-03,
MS-01,
MS-03,
MO-02,
MO-07,
MO-08,
NE-02,
NV-02,
NY-23,
NC-05,
NC-06,
NC-10,
OH-03,
OH-04,
OH-05,
OH-08,
OH-12,
OK-01,
OK-03,
OK-04,
OK-05,
OR-02,
PA-05,
PA-09,
PA-16,
PA-19,
SC-01,
SC-02,
SC-03,
SC-04,
TN-01,
TN-02,
TN-03,
TX-01,
TX-05,
TX-06,
TX-11,
TX-12,
TX-19,
TX-21,
TX-24,
TX-26,
TX-31,
TX-32,
UT-01,
VA-02,
VA-04,
VA-05,
VA-07,
VA-10,
WA-04,
WA-05,
WI-05,
WI-06,
WY-AL,
Please note that in some races others at the racetracker site have confirmed candidates that I haven’t. This is because to satisfy me a confirmed candidate has either filed with the FEC, The Sec of State or has an active campaign website, or even if they come and blog and say yep I am running. Others are not so rigorous.
Praise to those states where we allready have a full slate of house candidates – Arkansas, Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Vermont
Praise also to those State parties that have obviously been very aggressive in candidate recruitment. Ohio and Florida for instance have nearly full slates.
Tips, rumours and whatnot in the comments please.
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Any gossip about other candidates?
This week, before the FBI raid, something was calling to me about AZ-1. I was asking myself if I could win any one district and target it, which one, and this one stuck out. Corrupt, incumbent, not a bad pvi, lots of land (looks pretty on the map), and we can hold it if we win it.
SO that’s me
Hal Spake will make an announcement on a rematch on Saturday the 28Th at The 4th Dist. Oklahoma dem. Party Convention. He is expected to say he is in the race. I’m also told Lisa Pryor is thinking about the race.
The latest news: Rick Homans, who floated the possibility of running, bowed out to take a high paying job overseeing the Southern New Mexico spaceport. Or as one person said, “He wanted to make money.”
Martin Heinrich is virtually a lock for running. The only question is who — if anyone — will take him on.
The CW is Eric Griego will not run. But I’ve spoke to Griego, and he really seems to be trying to convince people that he’s the right guy to win.
Hector Balderas is also rumored to be mulling a run. Again, the CW is he is just in it to raise his profile.
Everyone says Terry Brunner will run — and Brunner will have the blessing of Sen. Jeff Bingaman, as Brunner is Bingaman’s state director. However, not much is known about Brunner.
Then we have Louis Caldera, the former United States Secretary of the Army and former UNM President. He is currently courting the DC Dems for his run. He left a year early from his post as the UNM Pres.
Then there are those with slight rumors — Al Park, Gerald Ortiz y Pino.
Based on TMP Cafe story tonight it sounds like Kay Barnes is running in 2008 making Barnes the prohibitives favorite to win the Democratic nomination to run against GOP incumbent Sam Graves of Missouri.
Kay Barnes is Mayor of Kansas City, and it immediately moves MO-6 into the radioactive column for hot contests.
I admire the Missouri State Democratic Party, they are taking the fight to the GOP. It is time to go on the offensive but to do that you need the candidates.
Peter Goldmark is very close to a decision on whether he will run again in WA-05 (Incumbent: Cathy McMorris Rodgers).