What can we do in 2006?

[latteromden]

State House:
TARGET:
8b, 12a, 17a, 22b, 25b, 29b, 31b, 37a, 38a, 40a, 43b, 50b, 52b, 56a

HOLD:
1b, 2b, 13b, 14b, 23a, 26b, 27b, 30a, 30b, 42a, 45a, 47a, 47b, 54b

Thankfully, strong Democratic districts really are STRONG (60%+), while strong GOP districts aren’t so strong (usually a 12% or so margin).

We’re so close to a majority of the House. Turning out these districts to vote for the DFLers will also turn them out to vote for Dayton.

DFL majority in the US House: keep all 4 seats (districts 4, 5, 7, 8), target 6 – especially if Kennedy runs for Senate – now, I’m not in 6. I’m in 3. But if there is any sort of anti-Kennedy vote to be found in 6, it’ll also be beneficial to us for the Senate campaign, if he should skip over the House this time and try to move to the Senate.

Senate: For god sakes, volunteer for Dayton’s reelection campaign! He’s got a problem on his hands – the whole office-closing fiasco. Republicans did not like that. They thought it was idiotic, and it’s earned him the “coward” label very successfully. He closed his office because he wasn’t going to be there anyway (Senate recess), and he didn’t want his staff or his visiting constituents to be in danger if there was a terrorist attack before the election; after all, the administration did have D.C. on Orange Alert, and apparently the threat was so dire that they talked about postponing the election – remember that? That's what you should tell them.

I refuse to let our Senate seat fall into Republican hands, or for them to keep their hold on the House.