Jim Costa will probably win CA-20
On Tuesday night we were all (including me) counting Jim Costa amongst the casualties of the 2010 GOP wave. After all he was trailing Republican challenger Andy Vidak by 1823 votes with 100% of...
View ArticleWhat is going on in NY-25?
Well what a topsy turvy race this has been. On election night we thought that Maffei had it in the bag, only to discover, when all 4 counties that make up NY-25 reported all precincts, that the...
View ArticleHouse Candidate Filing rolls on in Texas and Illinois
Texas and Illinois were the first two states where candidate filing was due to close. Then the US Supreme Court gave Texas one extra day.But nonetheless wander down below the fold to see how both...
View ArticleOhio House Candidate Filing rolls on
Courtesy of a craven cave in from the Ohio Democratic Party the Buckeye State now has an astonishingly GOP Friendly House map. Dropping two districts, courtesy of redistricting, Ohio has 16 Districts...
View ArticleHouse Candidates - 2 States Filing Closed
Well candidate filing has closed in both Illinois and Ohio, the first two states to do so for the 2012 election cycle.How did both parties fare?Below the fold for the state of play and please go and...
View Article2012 House - Dem Candidates piling in!
With the 2012 election now a mere 10 months away the time has a come to cast a look at how the parties are going with candidate recruitment for the House (quantity not quality).So how travels the good...
View ArticleWhich Californian GOP House member will retire next???
With 2 Californian GOP House members already retiring in 2012 and more likely to follow it is timely to have a look at the lay of the land with the entire Californian GOP House delegation.Below the...
View Article2012 House - GOP Candidate Filing
Last week I posted a diary showing how many Districts have Democratic Party candidates.So how travels the GOP?Below the fold for details.**Brought to you by one of the gang that brings you the 2012...
View ArticleCalifornia 2014 - US House targets?
Now that the dust has settled on election 2012 it is time to look forward to 2014. Some would say that we are just about maxed out in the California delegation but that is not quite the case.Below the...
View ArticleCalifornia - US House Targets 2016
Wow wasn't 2014 a bruising midterm election? Except in California where (assuming Costa (CA-16) and Bera (CA-07) hang on) we have made a net gain of 1 (CA-31) to move up to holding 39/53 Congressional...
View ArticleGOP House Districts - be there a Democratic candidate?
Hi all, Long time no diary (actually it's less than a year). Evcoren published a diary last week about Democratic recruiting efforts in the House of Reps and, well, it scratched an old itch. So join me...
View Article2018 - Candidate recruitment off to a flying start. But just how well are we...
Hi all long time no diary.I have been seriously impressed with how quickly and determinedly Democrats have picked themselves up off the floor after the disastrous 2016 election to oppose and resist the...
View ArticleCalifornia - House Targets 2018
2016 saw California continue to trend Bluer at a Presidential level with no less than 7 GOP House Districts being carried by Clinton as well as an increasing statewide Voter Registration gap between...
View Article2018 House - How many districts have Democratic candidates?
So Federal candidate filing has finished in all 50 states and we are part way through the primary season.Democratic enthusiasm has been sky rocketing (as much discussed at DKE) at both State and...
View ArticleThe California 7 - just how Red are they?
After a midterm that turned out to be a bounty for Team Blue in California, flipping 7 GOP Districts (half of their total), it is worth looking at how red those 7 districts actually are. This will in...
View ArticleCalifornia US House - 46 down 7 to go.
Well now that was one hell of a midterm election wasn’t it?I would, to be honest, have been happy with 3 or 4 pick ups in California but 7 woweeeeee.So what’s left and what should we be targeting? Yes...
View ArticleWith the midterms looking more positive do we have opportunities for pick ups...
It seems that predictions of a massive red wave in November were somewhat premature as Democratic overperformance in recent congressional special elections has shown. Will it be a positive year for...
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