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OH-07: Hobson Calls it Quits

by: James L.

Sun Oct 14, 2007 at 7:27 PM EDT

Another one bites the dust.

Republican Rep. Dave Hobson announced his retirement today, just days before his 71st birthday:

Rep. David Hobson announced at 5 p.m. Sunday that he will retire at the end of this term. [...]
He made his announcement at a birthday party surrounded by staff, former staff and community leaders.

Hobson's exit makes him the third Ohio Republican in the House to call it quits (Deborah Pryce and Ralph Regula being the others), and the 12th in the nation. His district, however, is fairly red -- with a PVI of R+6, Bush carried it by a 57-43 margin over Kerry. It will be a tough district for a Democrat to win, but the surging fortunes of Democrats in the state could spark an interesting race here with the right kind of candidate.

Remember, Democrat Zack Space pulled off a victory in an Ohio district that's just as red last year. Granted, his GOP opponent was deeply flawed, but who knows what kind of Club For Growth-style stooge the local GOP might spit out for us here.

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It really seems like that whenever we do a new House Open Seat Watch thread, another Republican or two retires immediately after. And here we have Regula and Hobson jumping ship soon after they checked out our post.

Maybe we should start posting these things weekly? :)

by: James L. @ Sun Oct 14, 2007 at 23:33:47 PM UTC

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Why not daily?

:P

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24, Male, Democrat, NM-01, Chairman of the Atheist Caucus, and Majority Leader of the "Going to Hell" caucus!

by: DGM @ Sun Oct 14, 2007 at 23:40:23 PM UTC

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They'd run out of incumbents well before Election Day. :)

by: James L. @ Sun Oct 14, 2007 at 23:42:29 PM UTC

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And that would be bad why? n/t

by: MissLaura @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 00:02:23 AM UTC

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Gotta have someone to kick around. :)

by: James L. @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 00:03:14 AM UTC

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Republicans would

1. Get back to their core values a lot sooner and start taking back the independant vote

and

2. Coattails from recent votes wouldn't be baggage working against the Republicans as much in 2008.

by: JeremiahTheMessiah @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 00:13:20 AM UTC

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lol! n/t

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by: californianintexas @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 02:24:57 AM UTC

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I just mentioned this in the Pearce blog

How many holes can the NRCC fill?

by: JeremiahTheMessiah @ Sun Oct 14, 2007 at 23:44:33 PM UTC

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Wild guess

None? If I'm not mistaken they have negative cash.

We are so lucky.

by: Populista @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 01:09:25 AM UTC

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To borrow an Atrios phrase

Are there any Republicans Left?

progressive, NY-8 (home), PA-7 (college)

by: pierredude @ Sun Oct 14, 2007 at 23:46:55 PM UTC

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To borrow another Atrios phrase

No.

(Simple answers to simple questions.)

by: DavidNYC @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 00:11:36 AM UTC

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Or to borrow BiPM's Kofax worthy writing

Mr. One Word Answerman!
Are there any Republicans left?

No

progressive, NY-8 (home), PA-7 (college)

by: pierredude @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 03:22:53 AM UTC

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Tomorrow is the big fundraising report day

But I have come across one that I didn't see on here, and we don't have any fundraising open threads...

NY-26

(Democrat) Jon Powers raised 117,928$ July-October

To me that is kind of disappointing to me, since he raised around the same amount in a month in the second quarter. (Although I'm sure the fact that it's the third quarter played into this).

by: JeremiahTheMessiah @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 02:08:31 AM UTC

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Here's a few more. I don't recall seeing. If they are repeats, sorry.

OH-01

(Democrat) Dave Dreihaus
Raised: 120,612$
CoH: 251,011$

IL-14

(Democrat) Bill Foster
Raised: 208,935$
CoH: 407,331$

NC-08

(Democrat) Larry Kissell
Raised: 101,428$
CoH: 103,000$

by: JeremiahTheMessiah @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 02:20:35 AM UTC

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I did post the other two...

...but not Kissell's numbers. Do you have a link for where you found 'em?

Thanks!

by: James L. @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 02:24:13 AM UTC

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Woops

Shoot. Whoever files reports for Kissell just filed a report for last year October quarterly... Damn. Nevermind those numbers. I was scanning through the FEC website mostly based on when they filed it.

by: JeremiahTheMessiah @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 02:53:23 AM UTC

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As for the other 2 -

My mistake. I missed the last post on fundraising somehow. I don't know. A lot of news that day I suppose.

by: JeremiahTheMessiah @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 02:57:19 AM UTC

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You can't call OH-18 as red as OH-7.

OH-18 is traditionally Democratic. OH-7 isn't.

by: DemocraticLuntz @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 02:33:05 AM UTC

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It is now, though

And OH-07 is less red than it was in the 90s.

by: DavidNYC @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 03:28:26 AM UTC

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oh-18

i think it has a r+ pvi in the double digits...i could be wrong, but if correct.

it is certainly not the "rich yuppie" type of republican district, but rather a social conservative district.

a socially moderate dem with good populist "fights for the average american worker" credentials can hold it.

by: Nate Shiner @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 09:32:30 AM UTC

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nope, R+6

Pretty much the same as OH-7.

PVIs for some key races are here.

by: Seth D @ Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 15:16:38 PM UTC

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We need a recruit

With Hobson's announcement, we really need a credible candidate (and no, we don't have one yet.)

by: ohio_anon @ Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 02:52:13 AM UTC

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We have the prospected candidacy of Clark County Sheriff

Gene something. In the breaking blue of mydd.com

by: JeremiahTheMessiah @ Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 05:29:28 AM UTC

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