Texas has 32 Congressional Districts. Democrats hold 13 of those seats currently, and are fighting in six more, officially, and another two unofficially. Eleven are completely uncontested Republican seats.
I plan to have a series of diaries detailing each race, lauding our incumbents, heralding our challengers, and seeking potential candidates for the uncontested races.
I have divided the state as best I can, considering the redistricting, re-redistricting, and general clusterf#@k Tom Delay made of our state. Please don't critique my division, it's just what made sense (sort of) in my head.
I've started in West Texas for a couple of selfish reasons. 1) While geographically huge, it has low population density and therefore few representatives. 2) Democrats are incumbents for two of the three districts.
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