While the "Run Chris! Run" Diaries just keep popping up (here and here and apologies to others that I might have missed), let me add another one with some optimistic numbers.
The numbers below the fold show the congressional districts within SD-17. In all 6 races in 2004, Republicans contested the seats, so the Republican values in the table are the 2004 results. However, Democrats did not contest CD-14 and for practical purposes CD-10. Richard Morrison was also under-funded in CD-22. Hence, to estimate how the Democrats might have done in 2004 had they been highly-funded (estimation denoted by *), I extrapolated the values from the Democratic 2006 percentages based upon the Republican totals.
Last Thursday, Todd write a diary on a potential primary battle for State Senate District 10. However, he did not reveal who might be involved in the primary. Buried in today's Fort Worth Star Telegram, we are given this little nugget (link):
Word has it that a couple of local Democrats are considering challenging Republican state Sen. Kim Brimer for the District 10 Senate seat next year.
Tarrant County Democratic Party Chairman Art Brender, busy gearing up a slate of local candidates for next year's elections, said he is considering making that bid himself.
"I'm looking at it real hard just in light of the changing demographics in that Senate district," said Brender, a Fort Worth lawyer.
And speculation is swirling that Fort Worth City Councilwoman Wendy Davis may be debating the same thing. She declined to comment.
I will neither confirm nor deny whether I even know to whom Todd was refering, let alone whether these were the candidates. Between these two, I have not yet picked a pony. But, it's safe to say that both of them can fundraise. Any thoughts?
(An excellent analysis. - promoted by Karl-Thomas Musselman)
As some of you might have read, Hidalgo wants to take on Cuellar. If it happens, then Linda Yanez who ran for Supreme Court in 2002 will likely be the candidate. At first glance, I don't think many pundits would give her much of chance. However, below I crunched some numbers to describe a scenario in which she wins.
