Hi all, Long time no diary (actually it's less than a year). Evcoren published a diary last week about Democratic recruiting efforts in the House of Reps and, well, it scratched an old itch. So join me below the fold to have a little look see into the weeds about how Team Blue is travelling with candidate recruitment.
I think we can safely assume that we will have candidates in all 188 House Districts that we currently hold. But what about the 247 that we don't?
But wait there's more. According to State SOS/Election/Party sites the following Districts ALSO have Democratic candidates:
AL-02 R+17
AZ-06 R+12
But wait there's STILL more. The following districts have candidates that I have found via the FEC:
OH-01 R+6
WI-07 R+2
But wait there's YET STILL more. The following districts have candidates that I have found via ActBlue:
MI-11 R+4
OK-05 R+12
108 in Total
139 in Total
I have included the Cook Partisan Voting Index scores to show the sort of territory that we are talking about.
Whilst personally I think that it was a travesty that the 50 State Strategy was killed off the fact remains that we must contest as many GOP held districts as possible, if only to pin down incumbents at home.
Your thoughts in comments would be handy and appreciated.