Weekly Open Thread: What Races Are You Interested In?

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Reminder: Polls close in Louisiana for the LA-06 primary run-off at 9PM Eastern tonight. (James)

27 thoughts on “Weekly Open Thread: What Races Are You Interested In?”

  1. Should be the Democrats flagship candidate this cycle.

    He’s young, has 10 lifetimes worth of accomplishments in international peace-keeping, is all about investing in the clean energy economy, and is party building in the rural southern part of the district. He’s already raised over $300,000 and has gotten the DCCC’s attention.

    Plus he’s up against turncoat Virgil Goode in a purple state trending blue, in a competitive district. This is gonna be a race to watch.

  2. Bob Lord vs. John Shadegg has begun to heat up in Arizona’s CD-3. Bob Lord is a Phoenix business attorney running against incumbent Republican House Rep. John Shadegg. Lord already has raised more than $600,000 in fundraising and I heard he had the most successful quarter this quarter to date. Sounds like he’s really going to give Shadegg a run for his money, literally.

    Shadegg wants open up federal lands for oil drilling instead of using alternative energy and renewable resources!!! Check out Bob Lord… he is all for saving consumers money at the pumps while Shadegg wants to tap into the big oil industries that are robbing us of our paychecks!

    Bob Lord is a great guy and is in it for the right reasons. I can’t wait to see what happens with this one…hopefully we’ll get Shadegg out of there once and for all.

  3. Jim Martin (D-GA) has exceeded his goal of raising $250,000 for the first quarter by raising $350,000 instead exceeding his goal by $100,000. I hope that he can keep it up during the second quarter. And one of the democratic candidates have already dropped out.

  4. Jim Marshall is going to win this district more comfortably this year than he did in 2006. He has spent alot of time in the southern half of the gerrymandered district & the people like his mainstream conservative views. Most of the voters in the district are conservative democrats so Rick Goddard is not going to come even close like Mac Collins did. No one knows why Goddard is even running. He is a uninspiring campaigner who isn’t running on anything. He is the most overhyped GOP recruit in the country. He doesn’t know anything about agriculture or any of the kitchen table issues that marshall is talking about right now. I predict Marshall getting 62% to Goddard 37% of the vote.

  5. http://www.charleston.net/news…

    This one has the POTENTIAL to get interesting. Brown is pretty old and stodgy.  This area (Charleston) is a bit of a ‘swing’ area, relatively speaking.  It put a Dem in the Governor’s mansion in 1998 for instance.  

    Ketner has the money to self-fund, IF she is willing.  If it is a Dem year and Obama increases D turnout, and Brown takes her lightly, it might turn into a close race.

    This is the only SC race that has any potential to get close, so maybe Dems from around the state will rally around her.  

    http://www.lindaketner.com/

  8. The two daunting special elections, and turncoat Virgil Goode.  

    LA-06 – Runoff Election tonight – Cayazoux was endorsed by the NRA – The presumptual Republican nominee is a chronic loser – We are outfundraising them – It is a perfect storm, have to keep an eye on this one to see if the NRCC stops by to bail the Repubs out.  

    VA-05 – In 2007 Virgil Goode raised less than $200,000 total.  Is he considering retirement?  It will be interesting to see what his first quarter of 2008 looks like, since Perriello is rolling.  

    MS-01 – Special election is looming in the near future.  Just worth following whats going on.  I don’t have as much info on this race.  

  9. The blogs seem to have gotten behind Leslie Byrne, but the veteran groups seem to have gotten behind Doug Denneny.  Will this lead to any acrimony among the various progressive factions?

  10. Schools in Baton Rouge are having a crisis because they’re overcrowded, the roads are jammed, the infrastructure is almost cracking as the city and state are stuggling to adjust it to the sudden, and massive influx of new residences. All this new money has the economy flourishing, they’re are plenty of jobs, and, a large number of black voters did end up settling here, those that didn’t want to leave Louisiana, I’ve heard Republicans put it low, at 15-20 thousand, but I believe the closer number is around 35 thousand. In addition a lot of white voters from the NOLA area, liberal leaning at perhpas a 55-45 rate, (or at least now after Katrina), settled here. Perhaps some 40-50 thousand of them, becuase estimates put the Baton Rouge area has having a 100,000 increase in it’s population since Katrina, and the area, partly over agner over the Iraq war, and Katrina, has certainly become somewhat more liberal over the past few years. With Barack Obama getting record registration and turnout among black voters, and getting crossover from conservative white dems and mostly Democratic Catholics who supported Bush over Gay Marriage Abortion, I think he could conceivable get 46-47 percent of the vote their in 2008.

    Jenkins is toast. He has done admirable charity work, but he also has close connections to Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, David Duke, and Oliver North. He’s run, and lost for statewide office four times over the past 30 years, and this has given him very high unfavorable ratings while Cazayoux is a popular moderate State Rep., and a fresh face. I’m telling you, this is a pick up if the DCCC decides to challenge, bring in a million dollars of ads to attack Jenkins over his crazy protestant Evangelical views, controversial far-right opinions and friends, and that’ll leave Cazayoux with the ability to just run a positive ad campaign and avoid getting the negative fall out from doing it personally. Besides, all that really matters in a special election is excitement, and Dems are more exicited, people voting the Dem Primary outnumbered those in the Republican primary by almost 18,000 voters, and something like 51% of people who voted in the first primary stated they intended to vote for Cazayoux against Jenkins in the special election. I think today’s runoff primaries will likely prove greater excitement once again, with my prediction being about 30 thousand more Democrats coming partly becuase many Republicans assume Jenkins has their nomination in the bag. Excitement is everything! And Dems are definitely a lot more active and a lot more excited about this race, I know I am. With LA-04 in contestion to this would be the perfect year if we could just get Chris John to run against Boustany.

    1. …has seen its population swell with displaced voters from New Orleans.  No one’s put an exact tally on it (as far as I know), but it could be enough to tip this election to Cazayoux — assuming that Cazayoux can win today’s runoff.

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