Weekly Open Thread: What Races Are You Interested In?

Tomorrow night will be a lively night here at SSP — we’ll be following the returns from the LA-06 special election.  Be sure to check back with us then. Cazayoux wins!

In other news, here’s a copy of the doorhanger that the DCCC is dropping off at houses in Mississippi’s 1st District:

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

  1. I’m interested in several Georgia State House races.  I think we can significantly reduce the Republicans’ hold on it.

    (I plan to do a thread highlighting some of the more interesting races at some point when I have some brain cells to spare.)

  2. 11 days until the primary.

    NE-Sen: Raimondo backs out of a debate in heavily African-American North Omaha. Kleeb opens offices in Lincoln and Omaha. All three candidates (Raimondo, Kleeb, Johanns) are now on the air. The pre-primary reports came in yesterday, but so far the FEC hasn’t put those numbers up on their website and none of the campaigns have publicized those numbers.

    NE-02: Esch has picked up in fundraising, outraising Lee Terry $80K to $60K in the pre-primary filing. Terry still has a huge cash advantage right now, but Esch is starting to tap into the party donor base that he was missing in 2006. Keep an eye on this race, it has the potential to surprise a lot of people.

  3. From Daily Kingfish a mention on potential African American defections in November.  From Rolfe McCollister’s Daily Report:

    The state Democratic Party’s hopes of winning long-held GOP congressional seats could be undermined by plans discussed by three black legislators to run as independents this fall in the 4th, 6th and 7th congressional districts. Sen. Lydia Jackson of Shreveport, Rep. Michael Jackson of Baton Rouge and Sen. Don Cravins Jr. of Opelousas say there are seriously considering bypassing the Democratic primary to file as independents on the November general election ballot. In that way, they could take advantage of the Obama-driven minority turnout without having to first survive a Democratic primary or two against better-funded white candidates. Other Democrats worry that the legislators’ strategy would split party voters and enable Republicans to hold the seats.

  4. Gas prices will keep going up and up no matter what. We need politicians who will accept that and help our society, economy, and infrastructure adapt to that reality.

  5. MI-04: I will soon be blogging with Concannon for Congress. More to come!

    MI-07: Mark Schauer has outraised Tim Walberg!

    MI-09: Will my former prof Gary Peters defeat, well, a Bush rubberstamp? I sure hope so!

  6. IL-14 (R+05): D win

    LA-06 (R+07): D win

    LA-01 (R+19): R win

    MS-01 (R+10): ? win

    Also, sorry I just missed the entire night’s worth of action.  But it’s still awesome to see that we won the race.

  7. The PA-05 race.  Mark McCracken has a real shot at flipping this seat if the LA-06 is any indication.  I’d love to see some polling done here.

  9. 1. Indiana and North Carolina gubernatorial primaries.

    2. North Carolina Senate primary.

    3. MS-01 special election

    4. Oregon senate primary

  11. Buried deep in The Fix’s story today ( Democrat Wins La. Special Election ) is this paragraph:

    Cazayoux … managed to avoid a particularly contested primary fight with black state legislator Michael Jackson.

    (Jackson did, however, run ads in the run up to today’s vote making clear he would be running as an independent for the seat in the fall.)

    If this guy does run as an independent, will that let the Repub. (whoever that may be) win by taking votes away from Cazayoux?

    (Sort of like what may have happened to Jenkins with Ashley Casey getting 3.7% in Saturday’s special election?)

  12. This poll can’t be accurate. There hasn’t been a Democrat to win a statewide election in Texas in years.

    Cornyn 47% to Noriega 43%

    Pollster: Rasmussen

    This telephone survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports May 1, 2008. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

    http://www.rasmussenreports.co…

  13. I believe it is a PVI R+08, so it won’t be easy, but Stearns is actually much more conservative than his district. AND the Univ. of Florida is in this district which can provide lots of young dem-leaning voters (especially if Obama is the candidate).

    http://www.TimCunha.com

    Full disclosure: I am involved in Tim’s campaign.  

  14. as they should but there are some A recruits in winnable districts and i’d like to learn more about polls, local issues, developments etc.

    FL-24 Rep Kosmas vs. Cong Feeney

    MI-7 St Sen Schauer vs. Cong Walberg

    NY-13 Councilmember Recchia vs. Cong Fossella (haven’t been paying any attention, but that DUI certainly perked me up)

    NY-29 Navy Officer Massa vs. Cong Kuhl

    WA-8 Businesswoman Burner vs. Cong Reichert

    the PVIs are all good and in every case they outraised the incumbent and have more cash on hand.

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