Posted on 05/21/2006 11:30:52 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
All Politics Is Local
Find the vulnerable seats, find among them a GOP candidate whose positions you like -- and work to help him or her. Send some money to that campaign. If you can drive there, volunteer your time.
Here are the vulnerable seats (see article and post 49 within):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1631282/posts?page=15
All politics is local. If you're upset about immigration, then that ire points at the party leadership -- not at all the candidates in tough races. Help those candidates whose positions you support.
Another very important consideration. Principle. Those that make a point of "principle" ignore another sort of principle that matters. Members of Congress are elected to represent their district. The RINOs from Blue states have moderate stances not just because they are afraid of losing, but because they have a principled obligation to represent their district or state. If that district is bluish, they are following a principle. To replace them with a Democrat would deepen the blueness of that seat in the WORST possible way -- the vote for Speaker or Majority Leader would switch. In a given session it is those votes being red that matter most because they deny the agenda to the opposition.
Not to be a party pooper, but here are the potential problems since redistricting will be decided by those who are in power in 2010 not 2006.
1 California will probably be controlled by Rats and they may turn from incumbency protection and target up to 5 Pub seats
2 Ohio, Penn and Michigan had excellent Pub gerrymandering (not so much Ohio) with all R control. Even partial Rat control could lead to neutral or maps drawn up by judges that could cause massive loss of seats. These states are all going to lose 1 or 2 seats and since the majority of seats in all these states are R it'll will probably be one of ours.
3 By 2010 the NY state senate could be controlled by the Rats which means no more incumbency protection and another possible R massacre. NY is losing 2 seats and the it's upstate (where I think most of our seats are) that is going to take the hit.
4 Illinois could be a massacre in 2012 as you noted.
5 Iowa is losing a seat, seeing how we have 4 out of 5 it'll probably mean 1 less R.
6 Louisiana will probably lose a seat, seeing how it's 5-2 for us probably cost us one.
7 Missouri is losing a seat, since it's 6-3 could be one of ours.
Good post, I don't know the details of the various state gerrymanders so I can't really comment further.
My pick is Bayh and whoever. If Bayh gets the nomination, he's our next President, regardless of who the GOP puts up, IMHO
One pick up in the house and 1 in the senate.
Check this site out. Tells the composition of state legislators from every state.
http://www.ncsl.org/ncsldb/elect98/partcomp.cfm?yearsel=2006
This will be the 4th election in a row that the dems will be filling the air waves with "What Happened?"
Well, sure hope you're not depending on the Senate Repubs for that.
As far as I recall, not a single Republican involved in the scandals made it through the primaries.
So, what is the problem? For one, dissatisfaction with Republicans has not turned into support for Democrats.
R.s need to be paying attention to this too.
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