We just topped our goal of 6,500 donations our Blue Majority candidates!
Thank all of you for getting us there, and here's some incentive to keep going to meet the next goal, 1,000 contributors per candidate.
CQ has been surveying the Congressional landscape, and it looks pretty damned encouraging:
Last week’s Jigsaw Politics column about our Senate ratings discussed how the Democrats, though they currently have a razor-thin operational majority of 51 seats, appear more likely than not to expand their majority — and how the idea of the nine-seat gain the party would need for a "filibuster-proof" three-fifths majority, although a considerable longshot, can’t be completely dismissed as crazy talk....
Over the past couple of weeks, CQ Politics changed its ratings on several House races and reported news developments in other races for which ratings had been changed earlier. All but one of these changes reflected improved Democratic chances....
As many of these races indicate, the Republican Party’s ability to seriously make a dent in the 30-seat loss they suffered in 2006, or even to maintain the ground they currently hold, is compromised by a big disparity between them and the Democrats in their relative number of open seats, which tend to be more difficult to defend than those in which incumbents are running. The Republicans currently are defending 25 seats of members who voluntarily left them open to retire or pursue other offices, to just six for the Democrats.
And on top of all this, the most recent money reports showed that the financially strapped Republican minority has little cash on hand to use as "venture capital" to promote its candidates’ takeover bids in Democratic-held districts. The National Republican Congressional Committee, the party’s House campaign unit, had just $5.1 million cash on hand as of the end of February, compared to $38 million reported by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Help make the NRCC's job that much harder by giving to a Blue Majority candidate, and putting all of our candidates over the 1,000 donor mark. We've reached that goal for everyone but Noriega, Seals, Trauner, Garcia, and Byrne. Let's get them there.
