Filing closed on Monday in Illinois; the first state to do so in this cycle.

How many of Illinois's 19 Districts did we file candidates for?

Below the fold for all the juicy details and hey go check out the 2010 Race Tracker Wiki over at Open Congress for all your House, Senate and Gubernatorial needs.

But before you do rejoice in the following sentence: "Congratulations Congressman Owens!" How fantastic does it feel to say that?

Yesterday I took a look at our efforts to recruit House candidates for 2010. This time it is the Republicans.

37! more Districts now have Republican candidates and they are getting wingnuttier all the time.
AR-02 (Snyder) - R+5,
CA-20 (Costa) - D+5,
CT-04 (Himes) - D+5,
GA-02 (Bishop) - D+1,
GA-13 (Scott) - D+15,
IL-02 (Jackson Jr) - D+36,
IL-08 (Bean) - R+1,
IA-03 (Boswell) - D+1,
KY-06 (Chandler) - R+9,
LA-03 (Melancon) - R+12,
MA-06 (Tierney) - D+7,
MI-07 (Schauer) - R+2,
MS-01 (Childers) - R+14,
MS-04 (Taylor) - R+20,
MO-04 (Skelton) - R+14,
NM-01 (Heinrich) - D+5,
NM-02 (Teague) - R+6,
NM-03 (Lujan) - D+7,
NY-04 (McCarthy) - D+6,
NY-13 (McMahon) - R+4,
NY-29 (Massa) - R+5,
NC-08 (Kissell) - R+2,
NC-13 (Miller) - D+5,
OH-06 (Wilson) - R+2,
OR-01 (Wu) - D+8,
PA-07 (Sestak) - D+3,
PA-10 (Carney) - R+8,
PA-13 (Schwartz) - D+7,
SD-AL (Herseth Sandlin) - R+9,
TX-23 (Rodriguez) - R+4,
TX-27 (Ortiz) - R+2,
UT-02 (Matheson) - R+15,
VA-05 (Perriello) - R+5,
VA-09 (Boucher) - R+11,
VA-11 (Connolly) - D+2,
WI-02 (Baldwin) - D+15,
WI-03 (Kind) - D+4,

Below the fold for all the details (and bring some eyewash) and hey go check out the shiny new 2010 Race Tracker Wiki over at Open Congress for all your House, Senate and Gubernatorial needs.

(Cross posted at Daily Kos, MyDD and Open Left)

In less than 15 months the midterms will be upon us.
In 2006 we fielded candidates in 425 districts and in 2008 candidates in 421.

How will we go in 2010?

Since my last update intrepid Democrats have been confirmed in another 17 Districts.

CA-19 (Radanovich) - R+9,
CA-25 (McKeon) - R+6,
CA-41 (Lewis) - R+10,
CA-42 (Miller) - R+10,
FL-01 (Miller) - R+21,
FL-13 (Buchanan) - R+6,
FL-16 (Rooney) - R+5,
IL-15 (Johnson) - R+6,
KS-04 (Tiahrt) - R+14,
LA-02 (Cao) - D+25,
OH-12 (Tiberi) - D+1,
PA-15 (Dent) - D+2,
SC-01 (Brown) - R+10,
SC-03 (Barrett OPEN) - R+17,
TX-21 (Smith) - R+14,
TX-32 (Sessions) - R+8,
VA-01 (Wittman) - R+7,

Below the fold for all the details and hey go check out the 2010 Race Tracker Wiki over at Open Congress for all your House, Senate and Gubernatorial needs.

(Cross posted at Daily Kos, Swing State Project and Open Left)

Yesterday I took a look at our efforts to recruit House candidates for 2010. This time it is the Republicans.

Below the fold for all the details (and bring some eyewash) and hey go check out the shiny new 2010 Race Tracker Wiki over at Open Congress for all your House, Senate and Gubernatorial needs.

(Cross posted at Daily Kos, Swing State Project and Open Left)

In less than 17 months the midterms will be upon us.
In 2006 we fielded candidates in 425 districts and in 2008 candidates in 421.

How will we go in 2010?

Below the fold for all the details and hey go check out the shiny new 2010 Race Tracker Wiki over at Open Congress for all your House, Senate and Gubernatorial needs.

(Cross posted at Daily Kos, Swing State Project and Open Left)

We had a pretty good night on election night in the Northeast. We cleaned house. We nailed 1 GOP Senator, 6 House of Reps Districts, 1 State Senate and held on to all of the State Senates, State Houses, US House Reps and US Senators we had coming into this cycle.

That the Northeast is rapidly realigning towards team Blue is undeniable!
But the work my friends has merely begun. Forget the bunkum about us being irretrievably on defense in 2010 come below the fold to see who should be in our sights in 2010 as we stay on offense in the Northeast........

The Northeast (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island & Vermont) has been sharply trending towards the Democratic party for some years now. Increasingly at a State and Federal level Republicans are finding it harder to get elected in the Northeast, be they conservatives or moderates, particularly in statewide races. And this years election seems certain to thin out their ranks even further.
We now have 7/9 Governors, 14/18 Senators and 51/65 House Districts!

Below the line for a look at the 14 GOP held House Races in the Northeast in 2008.

Candidate filing is now complete and whilst we won't do as well as 2006 we still have candidates in 421 districts. Oh yeh and I am flying over from Australia in 10 days to spend the rest of the campaign volunteering for a house candidate!

Below the fold for details and once again go and take a look at the 2008 Race Tracker Wiki.  
**I have included Cook PVI numbers where possible after blogger requests to do so!**