DavidNYC on the Swing State Project found a listing of the 40 Repugnant-held Congressional seats targeted thus far by the DCCC. The seats include those for John Doolittle-to-Nothing, CA-04, David Dreier, gay in Palm Springs gay resorts and straight in the CA-26, and Brian Bilbray, CA-50.
Missing is the CA-45 where Mary Bono has been absentee-Congresswoman since dating Connie Mack, R-FL. Bono Mack is now thought to be leaning towards moving to FL and eventually running for Mack’s seat when he runs against for Bill Nelson’s, D-FL, U.S. Senate seat. This would allow the termed-out Bonnie Garcia, R-CA, Assemblywoman from the CA 80th Assembly District to run for U.S. Congress.
Here is DavidNYC’s find:
Mon Dec 24, 2007 at 12:12 AM EST
The subscription-only Roll Call bagged an interview with DCCC Chair Chris Van Hollen last week. Van Hollen explained that the D-Trip has plans (at least, as of now) to target forty Republican-held seats. Frustratingly, Roll Call didn’t reproduce the list online, but did include it in their print edition. Fortunately, were able to snag it from p. 15 of the PDF version on their website (note: this link will probably not point to the proper issue as of Jan. 7th, 2008):
More below the flip…
Dist Incumbent Leading Dem Candidate 2006 D %age 2004 Bush %ageCA-04 John Doolittle Charlie Brown* 46 61
CA-26 David Dreier Russ Warner 38 55
CA-50 Brian Bilbray Nick Leibham 44 55* Denotes repeat candidate