Candidate filing is now complete and whilst we won’t do as well as 2006 we still have candidates in 421 districts. Oh yeh and I am flying over from Australia in 10 days to spend the rest of the campaign volunteering for a house candidate!
Below the fold for details and once again go and take a look at the 2008 Race Tracker Wiki.
***I have included Cook PVI numbers where possible after blogger requests to do so!***
421 races filled! This of course includes 236 districts held by Democratic Congresscritters.
But we also have 185 GOP held districts with confirmed Democratic opponents.
So here is where we are at (GOP Districts):
Districts with confirmed candidates – 185
Districts with unconfirmed candidates – 0
Districts with rumoured candidates – 0
Districts without any candidates – 0
Filing closed – No Democratic candidate – 14
The GOP held districts with confirmed Democratic challengers are as follows:
AL-02 – R+13,
AL-03 – R+4,
AL-04 – R+16,
AK-AL – R+14,
AZ-01 – R+2,
AZ-02 – R+9,
AZ-03 – R+6,
AZ-06 – R+12,
CA-02 – R+13,
CA-03 – R+7,
CA-04 – R+11,
CA-21 – R+13,
CA-24 – R+5,
CA-25 – R+7,
CA-26 – R+4,
CA-40 – R+8,
CA-41 – R+9,
CA-42 – R+10,
CA-44 – R+6,
CA-45 – R+3,
CA-46 – R+6,
CA-48 – R+8,
CA-49 – R+10,
CA-50 – R+5,
CA-52 – R+9,
CO-04 – R+9,
CO-05 – R+15.7,
CO-06 – R+10,
CT-04 – D+5,
DE-AL – D+7,
FL-01 – R+19,
FL-04 – R+16,
FL-05 – R+5,
FL-06 – R+8,
FL-07 – R+3,
FL-08 – R+3,
FL-09 – R+4,
FL-10 – D+1,
FL-12 – R+5,
FL-13 – R+4,
FL-14 – R+10,
FL-15 – R+4,
FL-18 – R+4,
FL-21 – R+6,
FL-24 – R+3,
FL-25 – R+4,
GA-01 – R+?,
GA-03 – R+?,
GA-06 – R+?,
GA-07 – R+?,
GA-09 – R+?,
GA-10 – R+?,
GA-11 – R+?,
ID-01 – R+19,
ID-02 – R+19,
IL-06 – R+2.9,
IL-10 – D+4,
IL-11 – R+1.1,
IL-13 – R+5,
IL-15 – R+6,
IL-16 – R+4,
IL-18 – R+5.5,
IL-19 – R+8,
IN-03 – R+16,
IN-04 – R+17,
IN-05 – R+20,
IN-06 – R+11,
IA-04 – D+0,
IA-05 – R+8,
KS-01 – R+20,
KS-04 – R+12,
KY-01 – R+10,
KY-02 – R+12.9,
KY-04 – R+11.7,
LA-01 – R+18,
LA-04 – R+7,
LA-07 – R+7,
MD-01 – R+10,
MD-06 – R+13,
MI-02 – R+9,
MI-03 – R+9,
MI-04 – R+3,
MI-06 – R+2.3,
MI-07 – R+2,
MI-08 – R+1.9,
MI-09 – R+0,
MI-10 – R+4,
MI-11 – R+1.2,
MN-02 – R+2.7,
MN-03 – R+0.5,
MN-06 – R+5,
MO-02 – R+9,
MO-06 – R+5,
MO-07 – R+14,
MO-08 – R+11,
MO-09 – R+7,
MS-03 – R+14,
MT-AL – R+11,
NE-01 – R+11,
NE-02 – R+9,
NE-03 – R+23.6,
NV-02 – R+8.2,
NV-03 – D+1,
NJ-02 – D+4.0,
NJ-03 – D+3.3,
NJ-04 – R+0.9,
NJ-05 – R+4,
NJ-07 – R+1,
NJ-11 – R+6,
NM-01 – D+2,
NM-02 – R+6,
NY-03 – D+2.1,
NY-13 – D+1,
NY-23 – R+0.2,
NY-25 – D+3,
NY-26 – R+3,
NY-29 – R+5,
NC-03 – R+15,
NC-05 – R+15,
NC-06 – R+17,
NC-08 – R+3,
NC-09 – R+12,
NC-10 – R+15,
OH-01 – R+1,
OH-02 – R+13,
OH-03 – R+3,
OH-04 – R+14,
OH-05 – R+10,
OH-07 – R+6,
OH-08 – R+12,
OH-12 – R+0.7,
OH-14 – R+2,
OH-15 – R+1,
OH-16 – R+4,
OK-01 – R+13,
OK-03 – R+18,
OK-04 – R+13,
OK-05 – R+12,
OR-02 – R+11,
PA-03 – R+2,
PA-05 – R+10,
PA-06 – D+2.2,
PA-09 – R+15,
PA-15 – D+2,
PA-16 – R+11,
PA-18 – R+2,
PA-19 – R+12,
SC-01 – R+10,
SC-02 – R+9,
SC-03 – R+14,
SC-04 – R+15,
TN-01 – R+14,
TN-02 – R+11,
TN-03 – R+8,
TN-07 – R+12,
TX-03 – R+17,
TX-04 – R+17,
TX-06 – R+15,
TX-07 – R+16,
TX-08 – R+20,
TX-10 – R+13,
TX-12 – R+14,
TX-13 – R+18,
TX-19 – R+25,
TX-24 – R+15,
TX-26 – R+12,
TX-31 – R+15,
TX-32 – R+11,
UT-01 – R+26,
UT-03 – R+22,
VA-01 – R+9,
VA-02 – R+5.9,
VA-04 – R+5,
VA-05 – R+6,
VA-06 – R+11,
VA-07 – R+11,
VA-10 – R+5,
VA-11 – R+1,
WA-04 – R+13,
WA-05 – R+7.1,
WA-08 – D+2,
WV-02 – R+5,
WI-01 – R+2,
WI-06 – R+5,
WY-AL – R+19,
The following GOP held districts have a candidate that is expected to run but is yet to confirm:
None
The following GOP held districts have rumoured candidates – please note that some of these “rumours” are extremely tenuous!
None
The following districts have not a single rumoured candidate:
None
And last but not least the list I did not want to have to include.
The following Republicans will not have a Democratic opponent in 2008:
AL-01 – R+12,
Our candidate withdrew.
AL-06 – R+25,
No candidate for the second election in a row.
AR-03 – R+11,
Our candidatre withdrew all Arkansas incumbents unopposed (3D, 1R and Democrtaic Senator Mark Pryor).
CA-19 – R+10,
Our candidate withdrew.
CA-22 – R+16,
No candidate appeared.
KY-05 – R+8,
Our candidate withdrew to run in the Senate Primary (He got trounced).
LA-05 – R+10,
Our likely candidate declined to run.
TX-01 – R+17,
Our 2006 candidate is running as an Independent.
TX-02 – R+12,
A candidate set up an exploratory committee but did not go on with it.
TX-05 – R+16,
Our candidate didn’t file.
TX-11 – R+25,
Our candidate filed too late.
TX-14 – R+14,
Our candidate switched parties!
TX-21 – R+13,
A candidate filed with the FEC but then didn’t file with the SOS.
WI-05 – R+12,
Our candidate withdrew.
So there you go :). 421 is still a fantastic effort but gee it could have easily been 430+.
As for me I will be spending the last five weeks of the campaign volunteering for Dan Seals in IL-10 (Yeh my version of a holiday), followed by a couple of weeks in NYC hanging out and playing tourist.
The first 2010 House diary will be posted in January with a lot less than 199 GOP districts to find candidates for
Go Obama!!!
Benawu