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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Out of Town

Posted by DavidNYC

I'm visting my fiancee's family in Ohio - the mother of all swing states. (Cleveland, to be precise.) My Internet access unfortunately is pretty limited, so I may not be able to post much until Monday. Back in some home-state news, you've probably seen by now that Janeane Pirro has bailed on the NY Senate race and plans to run for AG. This doesn't really change the calculus for Clinton - she'll steamroll whomever it is she faces. However, Pirro may yet prove to be a decent candidate for Attorney General, which worries me - if she wins, she could turn the nation's top regulatory enforcement agency into a slavering lapdog. I'm proud to say that I once worked for the NY AG's office, and I'd truly hate to see Pirro turn it into the embarassing mess it was under Spitzer's predecessor, the pathetic Dennis Vacco.

In any event, enough politics for now. Go enjoy yourselves - happy holidays to all!

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I can't wait for the Holidays to be over and the races to truly begin. I'm hoping you will give equal time to the oft-ignored swing state of North Carolina.

Posted by: chuckles at December 22, 2005 06:58 AM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

Well, OK then, happy holidays.

But when the season restarts, I hope somebody can report on what, if anything, is happening in Rep. Sensenbrenners WI district. I'm in Illinois, but that's the race I'd really like to get involved in. I think a good opponent, Dem or otherwise, would have more of a chance than the pundits would like us to believe. And his departure would be one of the biggest and best breaths of fresh air imaginable.

Posted by: DaveW at December 22, 2005 03:29 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

James Sensenbrenner has an opponent named Bryan Kennedy.

Posted by: RBH at December 22, 2005 05:09 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

NC-05. We currently have no candidates to take on right-wing nut bag Virginia Foxx. Foxx has over $500K in the bank and I am seriously wondering if that is what keeps our potential candidates out of the race? Then again, NC-05 is solidly, solidly republican.

2004
Virginia Foxx REP 167,546
Jim A. Harrell, Jr. DEM 117,271

2002
Richard M. Burr REP 137,879
David Crawford DEM 58,558

In 2000 only a Libertarian ran against Virginia Foxx. So, is there any reason for a Democrat to even run in this race? Well, if we don't run against her, where will the $500K go? To a closer race in NC. This is a true test of the "run a candidate in every race" theory. The leading candidates are Winston-Salem mayor Mayor Allen Joines and former State Senate President Ted Kaplan. However, no announcement from either (I've seen pages saying it is a foregone conclusion).

Posted by: chuckles at December 22, 2005 09:26 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

Stop by the West Side Market while you're in town. It's fantastic.

Posted by: Samson at December 23, 2005 07:26 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

Welcome to Northeast Ohio! Do your relatives live in Cleveland Heights? If they do, see if they want to sign my e-petition asking City Council to ask the President to aid the peacekeeping effort in Darfur, Sudan.
http://www.gopetition.com/online/7747.html

Posted by: curatorius at December 23, 2005 09:31 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

I've heard that Bryan Kennedy is a pretty solid candidate for WI-05, but the guy's got his work cut out for him. I would qualify Sensenbrenner's district as being to the right of Jean Schmidt's OH-02. Suburban/exurban Milwaukee is pretty comparable politically and culturally to suburban/exurban Cincinnati. Put it to you this way....Russ Feingold won WI by a double-digit margin last year, but lost District 5 by double digits. Bryan Kennedy has the bar set about as high as any Democratic challenger.

Posted by: Mark at December 23, 2005 09:52 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

I would qualify Sensenbrenner's district as being to the right of Jean Schmidt's OH-02.

Close

Bush/Kerry split, OH-2: 63.9/36.1 Bush
Bush/Kerry split, WI-5: 63.6/36.4 Bush

Then again, Wisconsin is bluer, so WI-5 stands out more by comparison.

Posted by: RBH at December 24, 2005 12:29 AM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

RBH, is there a website that singles out the 2004 election outcomes by Congressional district. I've looked for such websites, but have never been able to find one.

Even more daunting is trying to find county-by-county figures for the New England states, as opposed to precinct-by-precinct. Connecticut and New Hampshire provide county-at-large returns on their Secretary of State website, and perhaps Vermont does too, but on a file that my computer is unable to download. If you wanna figure out the county-at-large percentages for Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine (which I did last year for an apples-to-apples comparison with the rest of the country), you have to get out your nationwide atlas, identify every individual precinct in their respective counties and add them together. It took me several nights.

Posted by: Mark at December 24, 2005 01:19 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment