Competitive US House seats?

These are the ones I have now. What others may become competitive?

Vulnerable Repub seats:

AZ-1 (Renzi)
AZ-5 (Hayworth) (Read more here)
AZ-8 (Kolbe retiring)
CA-50 (Cunningham resigned)
CO-4 (Musgrave)
CO-7 (Beauprez running for governor)
CT-2 (Simmons)
CT-4 (Shays)
CT-5 (Johnson)
IL-6 (Hyde retiring)
IN-8 (Hostettler)
IN-9 (Sodrel)
IA-1 (Nussle running for Governor)
IA-2 (Leach)
KY-2 (Davis
KY-3 (Northup)
MN-2 (Kline)
MN-6 (Kennedy running for Senate)
NM-1 (Wilson)
NY-29 (Kuhl)
NC-11 (Taylor)
PA-6 (Gerlach)
PA-87 (Weldon)
PA-8 (Fitzpatrick)
TX-22 (DeLay leaving)
VA-2 (Drake)
WA-8 (Reichert)
WY-At Large (Read more here)

Vulnerable Dem seats:

CO-6 (Salazar)
GA-3 (Marshall)
GA-12 (Barrow)
IL-8 (Bean)
IA-3 (Boswell)
KS-3 (Moore)
LA-3 (Melancon)
NY-27 (Higgins)
OH-6 (Strickland running for Governor)
OH-13 (Brown running for Senate)
SD-AL (Herseth)
TX-17 (Edwards)

Independent seat:
VT-AL (Sanders running for Senate)

Just beat out Stenholm in 2004, in a redistricting assassination.

District 5:
Jim Sensenbrenner (R)*
Bryan Kennedy (D) - College Professor, Ex-Congressional Aide & '04 Nominee
Bob Levis (Green)

District 8:- open due to Green running for Gov.
< Mark Green (R)* - Candidate for Governor in 2006. >
John Gard (R) - State Assembly Speaker
Tim Lawrie (R) - Winery Owner, Retired Army Officer & Vietnam War Veteran
Terri McCormick (R) - State Assemblywoman & Ex-Educational Consultant
Steve Kagen (D) - Physician
Rich Langan (D) - Retired Police Officer
Nancy Nusbaum (D) - Ex-Brown County Executive, Ex-DePere Mayor & '02 Lt. Governor Candidate
Jamie Wall (D) - Business Consultant

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I'm sorry, but I've lived there. You are dealing with Waukesha, Washington, and Ozaukee counties there. No frickin' way.

I don't think we'll flip either one but they definitely belong on the lost of targeted seats. Jim Gibbons is giving up his seat in District 2 to run for governor, where he is the frontrunner. We have a good candidate in Jill Derby who will be heavily funded and has some strength in the rural areas of the state. Gibbon's wife is one of the Republican candidates for the nomination, and probably the frontrunner. It's such a GOP district in terms of registration we're always up against it., nearly a 50,000 edge. Plus, in Nevada the Republicans tend to turn out in higher numbers than Democrats in midterms.

Jon Porter is a pathetic incumbent in Nevada 3. It's a district that was drawn by the GOP legislature to start 50/50 then tilt slightly Republican as time passed, due to the new high income housing developments in north Las Vegas. Porter is favored but it's not a walkover.

Nye of Ohio. The coingate guy. Isn't he a congressman? If he's not vulnerable no one is (IMO)

What about the Senate? We need plus-6 there, right? (Or plus-16 to be fillibuster-proof....hey, I can dream!)

VT:

o Sanders (independent on left of Dems) replaces Jeffords (independent slightly right of Dems)


PA:

o Casey (DINO, but still a D) replaces Santorum (R-dinosaur)


I don't see any other big changes in the Senate, but I'd
love to be proven wrong.

Tesha

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