2016 Postmortem

littlewolf

(3,813 posts) Sat Aug 11, 2012, 02:08 PM Aug 2012

Ok ryan a R from WI

in the VP nominee .... how likely
are we to pick up his seat in the House?

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Ok ryan a R from WI (Original Post) littlewolf Aug 2012 OP

He doesn't have to give it up unless he wins...let's not go there. HereSince1628 Aug 2012 #1

ok........... he's a house member so up this year oldhippydude Aug 2012 #2

That was my question too! I can see if he wasn't up re-election, but as a House member that's Grown2Hate Aug 2012 #4

Yup. Remember Lieberman? CTyankee Aug 2012 #5

Biden did it too in '08. Drunken Irishman Aug 2012 #7

I thought he had to resign from the house littlewolf Aug 2012 #3

The difference Proud liberal 80 Aug 2012 #6

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)

1. He doesn't have to give it up unless he wins...let's not go there.

Reply to littlewolf (Original post)

Sat Aug 11, 2012, 02:09 PM

Aug 2012

oldhippydude

(2,514 posts)

2. ok........... he's a house member so up this year

Reply to littlewolf (Original post)

Sat Aug 11, 2012, 02:17 PM

Aug 2012

can he legally run for 2 offices?.... vp and house member?

Grown2Hate

(2,013 posts)

4. That was my question too! I can see if he wasn't up re-election, but as a House member that's

Reply to oldhippydude (Reply #2)

Sat Aug 11, 2012, 02:20 PM

Aug 2012

impossible. I'd like some clarification on this (Google seems to be of no help to me in the matter).

On edit: Nevermind. Found it. And yes, he can run for both under WI law apparently.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

5. Yup. Remember Lieberman?

Reply to Grown2Hate (Reply #4)

Sat Aug 11, 2012, 03:00 PM

Aug 2012

Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)

7. Biden did it too in '08.

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #5)

Sat Aug 11, 2012, 03:47 PM

Aug 2012

littlewolf

(3,813 posts)

3. I thought he had to resign from the house

Reply to littlewolf (Original post)

Sat Aug 11, 2012, 02:19 PM

Aug 2012

to run for VP .....

Proud liberal 80

(4,167 posts)

6. The difference

Reply to littlewolf (Original post)

Sat Aug 11, 2012, 03:44 PM

Aug 2012

Here is the difference between LIEberman 2000/Biden 2008 and Ryan now; in those Senate races the Republicans had no chance to win and they were really never contested. Ryan's district was carried by Obama in 2008 and has Cook PVI of only R+1. Democrats should actually make an attempt to at least challenge Ryan in the congressional race so that he either decides not to run for reelection or has to waste time there campaigning instead of going around he country as the VP nominee.

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