This is my Representative. He ran, basically uncontested, and 'won'.

[ScreamingMeemie]

http://poe.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=209017
It sucks that the people in TX-2 had nothing to vote for on that one. It's why my ballot was blank in that spot.


This was the "other choice"... the Libertarian who ran against him:

http://blogs.chron.com/txpotomac/2010/10/on_the_issues_dave_smith_liber.html


I live in an area that is a mini United Nations, in my father's words. This is reprehensible.

[FSogol]

1. Why don't you run? Start talking to local groups such as the PTA, Girl Scouts, etc about

the responsibility of the government to the people and what you expect from elected leaders. Good luck.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Because I am a widow with a young child and a job. Why don't I, instead,

since I just moved here, support a viable candidate for the Democratic Party for next election? I am unelectable. :hi:

[NeedleCast]

3. It's a valid point

If not you, encourage someone like-minded to run. I agree with your OP that there are just far too many seats out there where one side or the other is running unopposed.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Especially in areas that they don't "represent". Ted Poe has nothing

in common with the average voter here. Conroe, where the Libertarian challenger is from is a more small town area of the segment of Houston I am from.

[FSogol]

5. Exactly, find a like minded soul to run. n/t

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. I will support and work for a Democratic candidate.

Finding one requires about as much work as being one. Point of OP was missed here I see.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. So he really did win. Quotation marks aren't appropriate.

[TheKentuckian]

7. He won just like Saddam did every few years. Was Iraq a democracy?

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. Thank you!

[DavidDvorkin]

13. It's the same situation as Iraq?

No opposition party was permitted in this race?

[TheKentuckian]

19. Of course not but the hyperbole allows insight into the feeling of the voter.

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. They are appropriate.

Thank you Professor DD. :eyes:

[DavidDvorkin]

14. No, they're inappropriate

It's a common habit on DU, and a silly one, to use quotation marks to attack the opposition's credibility.

The Democrats chose not to run someone in that race. But they were not legally barred from doing so. He won that race, in reality, in actuality.

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. They are appropriate. There is no win, when there is no fight.

Sorry. Appropriate. We could bicker about this all day. But, I've got to go to work. Cheers.

[DavidDvorkin]

18. That's a meaningless statement

Lack of opposition makes the win extremely easy, of course, but it's still a win.

[Cleita]

11. I didn't even have the choice of a Libertarian. Only

one name, Republican Kevin McCarthy, was on my ballot for my congressional district, yet our Democrats won't run anyone because they say the seat is un-winnable. So what! We need a choice! Sometimes it's the Dems who are at fault for our failures.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Thank you for getting my OP, instead of admonishing me for not running.

:hi:

[Greyhound]

15. Thank Tim Kaine and the NewBlue3rdDLCWay.

They determined that you were not worth fighting for.

[KamaAina]

17. Sounds like you got gerrymandered clear out of Houston by DeLay

they picked off just enough of the far northern suburbs to take them away from a Bluer district in Houston proper, but obviously, not enough to pose any threat to Poe.