I’d been waiting for NY Sec State to put up his combined congressional filings, and he finally did the other day. That allows us to total up the filings nationwide. It looks like Republicans have left 49 Dem seats unchallenged this cycle if I did the math right. They managed to worsen their previous count of 46 from 2006. Here’s the Dem seats they walked away from this cycle for the record:
AL-07
AR-01,2,4
CA-18,28,30,31,32,37,38
CO-03
FL-03,17,20
GA-04,5
IL-02,4,5,7,17
LA-03
MA-02,3,4,5,7,8,9,10
MI-14
MO-01
NJ-10
NY-06,9
OR-04
PA-12,14
TN-06,8,9
TX-09,16
VA-03,9
VT-01
WI-04
WV-01
Let’s give Tom Cole a big round of applause for now OFFICIALLY becoming the worst NRCC chair recruiter in the last several decades.