Weekly Open Thread: What Races Are You Interested In?

Which Republican crumb-bum do you most want to see go down in flames in 2008?

Also, anyone at YearlyKos right now?  Wish I could've made it this year, but Swing State Project godfather and netroots hero DavidNYC is proudly waving the site's banner in Chicago.  Did anyone get a chance to catch one of his panels on local blogging today?

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

  1. I want to see Tom Allen hang Susan Collins’ record around her neck so it weighs her poll numbers waaaaaaaaay down.  Collins is popular, but if Allen uses her record against her, he has a shot at winning . . .

  2. I’m curious about how Dan Maffei is doing and hoping he can take out Walsh this year. If Clintion somehow ends up on the ticket maybe she can help since well at least New York seems to love her to death.

  4. all strike my attention, KY and TX due to its potentiality, and MN because Franken is running there.

    I’ve also been thinking quite a bit about redistricting in 2011 in places like Virginia, Minnesota and Iowa. For Virginia, if Dems end up winning over the House + Senate (and retain the governorship), I can conceive of a plan to flip the 8R-3D into an 8D-3R. For Minnesota, what will the changes be if Minnesota ends up losing a seat? And for Iowa, who will definitely lose a seat, it is likely that IA-03 and IA-04 will mostly be combined into one seat. Will we have an incumbent already for 2012?

    Winning control of state legislatures will be quite important for redistricting. And, speaking of which, if the California EV split vote thing passes, it could actually be beneficial to us in a small way. Wouldn’t that give Democrats in the legislature an excuse for a new gerrymander to the extent of +5 Democratic EVs/Seats?

    1. Though, the most sensible scenario would be combining the 3rd and 4th districts, and expanding each (which would probably be good for us, overall, if we had an incumbent), though you never know; They could completely flip upside-down all the districts, perhaps making a 4-corners plan which would be pretty bad for us.

  6. I want to see no other member of congress go than Marilyn Musgrave!  The woman is terrible on every issue and despite her pos-06 attempted to change her image, she has done NOTHING for this district and votes against the interests of her constituents in all critical matters! 

    GO ANGIE PACCIONE!!! 

    Angie can totally pull this off this time, without that pesky little 3rd party candidate Eidsness!

  7. We have a great chance to replace Gordon Smith with two great Democratic Candidates – Steve Novick and Jeff Merkley. I’m personally in the Novick camp, but either way Oregon wins with Steve or Jeff.

    Replacing Greg Walden in CD2 would be a Herculian feat or should I say we have “a snowballs chance in hell”, but we can still dream. Greg Walden is a Bush toady.

    1. MN is apparently in competition with South Carolina and Georgia when it comes who will lose a seat.

      I pray that it is one of the other states, one more MN seat means more EV’s!

      And I guess on that note, races im interested in, MN Governor in 2010.  If we can win that, redistricting will be such a DFL breeze.  But with our strong independent party junk, us DFL’ers get f’d over big time in the governor race.

  9. Back in 2004, Barry Welsh had an excellent website keeping track of actual and reported candidates.  Who is doing that now?  I loved how Barry set his website up to acknowledge different sources for his listing.

    1. I don’t have a different candidate to suggest, but what factors are you thinking might have changed, to give Ford an edge in the 2008 cycle?

      If he didn’t win an open seat after the GOP had a bitterly divisive primary, is a relatively secure incumbent vulnerable to him? Did any of Ford’s negatives fade in the last year?

      I don’t know what else to suggest, though. Rosalind Kurita flushed her credibility down the toilet on the leadership deal she sabotaged. Are there some folks on the bench in TN that I’m not familiar with? I hope there are. 

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