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

  1.   I’m watching the senate races in Oregon, Maine, and Minnesota.  I’m terribly bored by the hand-wringing over the races in Maine and Minnesota.  I think both Franken and Allen will win.  Merkley is already winning, and Gordon Smith is a surprisingly poor campaigner.  Susan Collins doesn’t campaign at all.  She thinks that if she says “moderate” a lot she’ll cruise to reelection.  She’s living in 2002.  Norm Coleman is the only decent campaigner in the bunch.  

  2. The hottest races are AK-Senate and AK-AL for obvious reasons.

    The rest in no particular order:

    NM-1: I would love to see old Darren White lose an election.

    CO-2: I like Jared Polis. Fresh face in politics is always a good thing.

    ID-1: Walt Minnick is running a great campaign. It would be fantastic to see him win.

    MO-Gov, MO-6, MO-9: My Republican mother-in-law lives in MO. Nothing would make me happier then her anguish over being represented by Dems.

    NJ-5: Dennis Shulman is a very interesting person and I would be pleased to see him in Congress. Anybody know if there has been a blind Congressman before?

    IN-Everything: I’m hoping the Jill Long-Thompson, the congressional delegation, state house and state senate can win some major victories. I even like Evan Bayh as Veep even though I know that there are dangers with Daniels making an appointment. Indiana seems to be the only Midwestern state that is very hard for Dems to compete in. I would love to see that change.

    I’m not sure were all of the recent polls put us but it definitely seems that we are looking to pick up more seats by the minute. With the Red to Blue candidates and the eleven vulnerable Senate Republicans, I can’t wait for November. And let me tell you it’s been a long time since I looked forward to an election.

  3. Honestly, if we can win there we can win everywhere in 2008.  Minnick is running a tremendous campaign and should give Sali all he can handle and more in ID-01.  Outside republican forces will have to devote big resources for them to save this seat given Sali’s mickey mouse campaign operation.

    In the Senate race Larry LoRocco is arguably the hardest working Democratic Senate candidate in the country.  It’s amazing how well he’s running in Idaho given his limited resources.  The DSCC should seriously consider dropping some cash into this race.  At the very least such a move would encourage other Dems working their asses off to get elected in the reddest parts of the country.

  4. Super exited about this race (again). Now that it’s on Red to Blue it’s starting to get major attention. Goode was just mocked on the Daily Show (he responded by saying he doesn’t want the “Jon Stewart Show” and that he doesn’t know what a “rapper” is).

    Go Tom!

  6. In the House, my top race, as far as incumbent retention is concerned, is Carol Shea-Porter in NH-1.  I would love to see New England cleared of congressional Republicans. We are only one seat away from that in the House–Shays of CT–and one of these times he is going to lose or retire (50-50 chance that this is the election).  But we have to keep NH-1.  I think if she can survive this time, she will be able to entrench herself rather strongly.    

  7. Debbie Cook outraised Rohrabacher last quarter, but he still has more cash on hand. California is so badly districted in favor of the incumbant party, that if Debbie can win this seat, the legislature will redraw the district to be more favorable to her. I’ve met her personally, and she is a wonderful lady, and would be a far better representive than Rohrabacher is or could ever be. All she needs is more money. Help Mayor Cook out!

    http://www.actblue.com/page/dumpdanarohrabacher

  8. As Profiled on NPR

    “Gillespie retired last year after 23 years in the Army. He served in Iraq in 2003 and earned a Bronze Star. But he faces a tough fight in trying to unseat eight-term Republican Jack Kingston, who has never won re-election with less than 68 percent of the vote. Gillespie, a 44-year old conservative Democrat, has proposed a South Georgia Alternative Energy Initiative that he says would make the region the national leader for alternative energy research, production and commercialization. His other top issues include “stopping illegal immigration, reforming the health care and insurance industries, improving benefits for veterans, lowering taxes for families and small businesses, repealing the No Child Left Behind Act, balancing the federal budget, and promoting ‘sustainable development.’ “”

    http://media.npr.org/politics/…

    I’m curious to see if we can put up a fight in this district

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