One of things that I love doing on my all too infrequent trips to Washington, DC; along with networking, kicking Rethugs to the curb whenever possible, is being able to pick up “Roll Call” and “The Hill” for free. One of the articles in the 1/4/06 edition of “Roll Call” was an article from Rep. Tom Cole, the new head of the RCCC. One of the things that he said was that the RCCC had a debt of around $16 million and that was more than they had realized previously (SNARK WARNING) couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of gals and guys. He also talks about 60 congressional districts that president bush carried twice that are currently help by Democrats. I won’t bother you with 39 of them, because they are held by long term, incumbent dedmocrats with large voting percentages. But there are 21 districts; held by Democrats, who won with under 55%. The list is as follows:
TX 22nd Nick Lampson 52%
PA 10th Christopher Carney 53%
IA 9th Baron Hill 50%
KS 2nd Nancy Boyda 51%
LA 3rd Charlie Melancon 55%
NC 11th Heath Schuler 54%
IL 8th Melissa Bean 51%
IN 2nd Joe Donnelly 54%
GA 8th Jim Marshall 51%
WI 8th Steve Kagen 51%
AZ 5th Harry Mitchell 51%
CA 11th Jerry McNerney 53%
FL 16th Tim Mahoney 49%
NY 19th John Hall 51%
PA 4TH Jason Altmire 52%
AZ 8th Gabrielle Giffords 54%
NY 24th Michael Acuri 54%
MN 1st Tim Walz 53%
NH 1st Carol Shea-Porter 52%
IA 3rd Lenoard Boswell 52%
OR 5th Darlene Hooley 54%
These are prime cases of defense first along with the districts that Kerry took in 2004 that have elected rethugs.