Contest Every Seat
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Category: 2006 elections
2006 Contest Every Seat
It is important to contest every House, Senate, and State Race up in 2006.
Michelle Chavez can tell you why. Further, benefits to contesting each seat include:
Democrats failed to give Kerry any down ticket help in 14 of the 72 congressional districts in those states: nearly one out of every five. Even a half-hearted campaign by a Democrat in each of those districts would surely have helped Kerry to the tune of at least a few hundred, and probably a few thousand, votes per district.<p>
Most clearly, by failing to challenge these districts, we also failed to force existing GOP incumbents to raise money and spend campaign time that went to Republicans in more competitive elections.<p>
Abandoning a district also has repercussions for future elections. Failing to challenge your opponent's message in an area is damaging to your message in that area in the future.<p>
As Kos explained in an earlier post, we forced the RNC to burn $7M defending two seats that we had no chance of winning. This only happened because we contested them.<p>
MyDD has suggested that we can contest House seats for $10,000 per candidate. Given the propensity blogs have shown for raising money, if the DNC does not want to put money into each House seat in 2006, then we should do it on our own.
==List of 2004 Uncontested Seats== (Hopefully will morph to table with lot's of info)
AL-6
AZ-3
AZ-6
CA-22
CA-41
FL-4
FL-7
FL-9; FL-21; FL-24; FL-25; GA-1; GA-6; GA-7; GA-10; KS-1; KY-5; LA-04; MS-01; MS-03; NY-25; OK-03; OK-04; PA-05; PA-10; PA-19; SC-01; SC-03; TN-07; TX-03; TX-10; TX-13; TX-14; VA-01; VA-06; VA-07
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