Don’t forget that on 3/4, Texas and Ohio will also hold their congressional primaries, too. Which Lone Star and Buckeye State primaries are on your radar? I’m thinking TX-22, TX-10 and OH-10 for starters. What else?
P.S. Trapper John has a question.
UPDATE: KS-Sen: Dem Greg Orman is out.
TX-10 and OH-10? I didn’t have them on my watchlist, but then again, I don’t really have everything on my watchlist either…
your dead on in Texas. Doherty has a nice chance in the 10th I think and it will be good to see who Lampson is up against in the 22nd.
for Ohio Ohio 2 will be interesting as Wulsin and Black have been running strong. the reults of 1 14 15 16 and 18 will also be looked at. As for the 10th, thats not on my list, though I’ll have to go back and take another look.
Kilroy is practically an incumbent in this race.
She lost to Deb Pryce in 06 by 1000 votes.
Now Pryce is retiring and Steve Stivers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S…
is the primary contender (although he is not the only Republican running).
Pryce is the only Dem and is already gearing up.
http://www.kilroyforcongress.com/
In the TX-22 GOP primary, I’m rooting for Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, aka “Snelly Gibbr.”
running against ron paul?
see if our crazies go down in the primary (Paul and Kucinich)
http://www.azcentral.com/arizo…
First Jim Ramstad, now Shadegg.
After Gary Peters filed with over 400K in Q4. State republican party chair Saul Anuzis decided that a deceptive media campaign was the order of the day.
Joe Knollenberg is totally out of touch with the 9th district, while Gary has a history of serving and fighting for us.
Gary is doing really well over here, “they” have noticed.
We’ve got a crowded closed primary field in LA-06, with 6 candidates running there. One’s released a name ID poll, and another is running ads for the March 8th primary.
In LA-01, show some love to Kossack Gilda Reed. She’s running in a district that has had 3 Congressman in 9 years, since Bob Livingston (R) had to resign because of an affair, then “Diaper Dave” Vitter (R) decided to up and run for the Senate, and then Governor PBJ (R) had to go and become Governor. This district is still struggling to recover from Katrina, and could use a Democrat that will stay in this seat and fight her people. This primary is also March 8th.
Not exactly an 08 Congressional race, but I’m actually very interested to see if Reid will run again for Senate Leader (I’m assuming he would, but who knows), or if there’s a possibility that he would be challenged. I know there’s a lot of people online (and probably offline, ha) who are wanting Dodd to run, but I could also see Durbin and Schumer as obvious candidates looking to climb the leadership ladder a rung or two higher (though I do not see either of them straight-out challenging Reid, it would have to be a scenario where he steps aside). Then there is always Clinton (assuming she falls short in her bid for the presidency) and many people have said she would make a good Senate Leader. What do you folks think? Is the leadership going to remain Reid-Durbin-Schumer, or will there be a shake-up for the 111th Congress?
… doesn’t bode well for our attempts to field a 50-state strategy. Let’s hope we can do better when 2010 rolls around.
NE-01: A 25 year-old former Marine sergeant, Max Yashirin, is challenging Fortenberry.
NE-02: Another Iraq vet, Richard Carter, an Air Force Captain, is challenging Lee Terry.
Word in the press lately is that Jim Esch is rethinking his decision not to run, but it’s looking pretty likely that he’ll sit this one out.
NE-03: Haven’t heard anything from our western Nebraska folks for a while. It’s still possible that Scott Kleeb might run for this one, but not likely, as he seems more interested in a statewide bid. Two weeks until the filing deadline.
NE-Sen: We’ll hear something from Scott Kleeb this week on whether or not he’ll run for Senate.
I find it fun just to look at these general election polls. It is way too early to mean anything, but here is what Rasmussen has:
Democrat – 270 and McCain 216
Safe Republican 178
Likely Republican 11
Leans Republican 27
Toss-Up 38
Leans Democrat 36
Likely Democrat 94
Safe Democrat 154
Safely Democratic: California (55), Connecticut (7), District of Columbia (3), Hawaii (4), Illinois (21), Maine (4), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (12), New York (31), Rhode Island (4), and Vermont (3).
Likely Democratic: Delaware (3), Michigan (17), Minnesota (10), New Jersey (15), Oregon (7), Pennsylvania (21), Washington (11), and Wisconsin (10).
Leans Democratic: Iowa (7), New Hampshire (4), New Mexico (5), and Ohio (20).
Toss-Up: Colorado (9), Missouri (11), Nevada (5), and Virginia (13).
Leans Republican: Florida (27)
Likely Republican: Arkansas (6), West Virginia (5)
Safely Republican: Alabama (9), Alaska (3), Arizona (10), Georgia (15), Idaho (4), Indiana (11), Kansas (6), Kentucky (8), Louisiana (9), Mississippi (6), Montana (3), Nebraska (5), North Carolina (15), North Dakota (3), Oklahoma (7), South Carolina (8), South Dakota (3), Tennessee (11), Texas (34), Utah (5), and Wyoming (3).
Basically, they have a 2004 result with Iowa (7), New Mexico (5), and Ohio (20) switching from Republican to Democrat.