Which ones?
The 11th Congressional District in Western NC, for one.
We have an Asheville libertarian-based candidate (Mumpower) who is fighting the county GOPs and is p!ssing everybody off whom he shouldn't. The two genuine conservatives (our own Congressman Billybob and Spencer) split the vote in a 3 way contest and lost. Therefore, the "minority" GOP candidate won. Sound familiar?
This is a strongly conservative district which should handily win in the GOP column but probably won't. We are represented by a blue dog ex-football "hero", Heath Schuler, who says the right things when in the District and then votes with Nancy Pelosi. A good GOP candidate might knock him off. Mumpower won't. Either of the others could have.
After this year, Shuler will be tough to beat because of incumbency.
I asked FR’s own Congressman Billybob if he was prepared to raise over a million dollars for that race for the general if he won the nomination and I never got an answer. Even if he had gotten the nod, if he couldn’t raise it, he wasn’t going to win. I was hoping State Sen. Tom Apodaca, who represented a chunk of the district, and also with added appeal as a Hispanic, would’ve been a better choice to face Shuler, but he dropped out last year. Perhaps we can persuade him to run in 2010.