and that FPOS hinchy won by the slimmest of margins in the worst gerrymandered district in the state tooo...Nice! +7 from NY.
Too bad about NY-23 being lost cause Hoffman was still on the ballot as the Conservative.
A couple other fairly close loses. Hinchey won by around 8 K or 4 points. McCarthy won by 8 points.
We better get the State Senate or we may have trouble keeping these under a new rat gerrymander.
Going with who’s ahead in the uncalled races this would make it 244 R. Plus I think there’s still hope for Harmer in CA-11 with the absentees, 245 is a nice round number.
To have such a large gain and only 2 gains tops in CA.
“To have such a large gain (in NY) and only 2 gains tops in CA.”
I have bad news, the absentees in California are going heavily Dem.
Costa and McNerney are heading for victories.
The GOP gain in California will be a big fat ZERO.
and that FPOS hinchy won by the slimmest of margins in the worst gerrymandered district in the state tooo...I just did a quick tally of the Blue Dog Coalition. Out of 54 members, only 25 survived Tuesday and there are a couple of members like Costa and Chandler who are still in recounts so there may be even less than 25 once it’s all settled. A couple of those also retired and were replaced with Republicans. That’s incredible.
Can you think of any new Democrats who have been elected that would join the coalition?
Many of those have publicly said they will not support Pelosi. If they don’t, I imagine they will be relegated to the basement offices right next to the boiler room and will not get ANY plum committee assignments.
In that situation, would they be targets for party switching?
Why can’t we come up with strong competitors to Boren or Matheson? Those districts are deep red. Maybe 2012 where the focus will probably be much narrower.
What’s the deal with the NY state senate?