Tonight brings our fourth and final installment in our series of Senate recruitment open threads. For the past several weeks, the Swing State Project has been cracking open the field of GOP-held Senate seats up for grabs in 2008, and inviting you to submit your recruitment ideas for each of these races. For a look back at the previous discussions, see here (AK, AL, AR, GA & ID), here (KS, KY, ME, MN & MS), and here (NC, NE, NH, NM, OK).
Here are our targets for this week. Links are to the 2008 Race Tracker wiki for inspiration, and incumbents are in parens:
16) Oregon (Gordon Smith)17) South Carolina (Lindsey Graham)
18) Tennessee (Lamar Alexander)
19) Texas (John Cornyn)
20) Virginia (John Warner)
21) Wyoming (Mike Enzi)
As always, don’t feel limited to submitting the names of traditional politicians. Businesspeople, community leaders, activists, writers, musicians, athletes or celebrities are all fair game. I have already seen a number of very creative suggestions in previous weeks. You never know who’s reading or what kind of traction these ideas could generate. So have at it!