One of the nicest things about this particular win is that NY-23, at 13,200 square miles, is the fifth-largest district east of the Mississippi. The four bigger eastern districts are ME-02, MI-01, WI-07 and WI-03, all of which are already held by Democrats. So this is the biggest swath of bright blue we’re going to get to paint on this side of the Mizzip. Congrats, Bill Owens!
P.S. This is the sixth special election in a row that Dems have flipped from Republicans. Our streak began at the end of a GOP streak of five straight from 1994 to 2001. (Before that, according to Wikipedia, the longest streak appears to have been the eight seats the GOP flipped in succession from 1976 to 1980.)
I just realized that Mike Arcuri’s district looks like it’s giving New England the finger.
Nevada Dems should make sure to put all the rural/desert part of the State in with the Central Las Vegas district.
East of the Mississippi? Probably some crazy-Republican district in the South, or a downstate Illinois district?
is AK-AL, I think
so we can see Maine and Boston metro in all it’s glory
after Dems pick up PA-06 and DE-AL and if things go well PA-15
just to list them
2004-Kentucky 6- Ben Chandler
2004 South-Dakota At Large- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
2008 Illinois 14- Bill Foster
2008-Louisiana 6- Don Cazayoux (sadly we lost this one in the general)
2008-Mississippi 1- Travis Childers
2009-New York 23- Bill Owens
Obama should appoint Frank LoBiondo to a cabinet position. I know the Dems can pick that one up in a special election.
Thanks!
Stay blue and stay classy Congressman-Elect Owens.
Rahm tried it on in NY-03 by offering King the ambassadorship to Ireland – he knocked it back.
Lee in NY-26 is a frosh – he ain’t going anywhere.
In NJ the 4th and 5th and 11th are too Republican for us to win a special there and Lance in the 7th is a frosh so he isn’t going anywhere either.
That leaves the 2nd and I concur we should offer a plum to LoBiondo.
In Pennsylvania we have competitve challengers in place in the 6th and 15th so lave them alone. The 5th, 9th, 18th and 19th are way too Repub for us to win a special there – Obama <45% – which just leaves Pitts in the 16th. Obama got 48% here hhhhhhmmmmm interesting thought. BTW if I could remove any Repub from the house in the hope that we would win the district in a special that we probably won’t win in 2010 otherwise???? – Dreier in CA-26, Latham in IA-04, McCotter in MI-11 or Wolf in VA-10.
Because you never know when the other side will completely fuck up royally and give you fertile ground to grow a victory.