Political Note #264 Mike Larson OH CD 04
Mike Larsen made television shows for everyone. Sabrina the Teenage Witch is not a television show for the elite.
Political Note #260 Carolyn Long WA CD 03
Carolyn Long's was an academic life. If Carolyn Long was political outside the University, it was not visible. 2016 happened. She appears to be one more person energized by the election of Donald Trump.
Political Note #257 Abby Finkenauer IA CD 01
Check out the website: https://lenspoliticalnotes.com Look at the recent Daily Bits on the website. Bill Clinton’s Trial in the Senate 2020 General Election Iowa used to be a man’s world. In 2014, Republican Joni Ernst was elected to the US Senate. She was the first woman to be elected to either branch of Congress from Iowa. After the 2016 election, Joni Ernst was still the only woman representing Iowa. In 2018, the Republican incumbent (by way of the Governor having resigned) Kim Reynolds was elected in her own right, bringing transformation to the Iowa State House. Democrats joined that transformation in…
Political Note #258 Collin Peterson MN CD 07
Look at the recent Daily Bits on the website. President Clinton's trial in the Senate. 2020 General Election There is a row of counties along Minnesota’s southern border. If the three counties in that row in the southwest corner of the state were part of MN 07, then Collin Peterson’s http://www.petersonforcongress.com/ MN 07 would cover the entire western border of Minnesota – three counties deep or more. Collin Peterson’s MN 07? He doesn’t own that district. Maybe Donald Trump owns it. Trump carried it by 30 points. Or GW Bush. Bush carried the district by 14 against Al Gore, by…
Political Note #254 Tedra Cobb NY CD 21
The impeachment of the President and related controversies are central to the standing of NY 21’s incumbent.
Political Note #252 Eugene DePasquale PA CD 10
Eugene DePasquale has the potential to be a sensation.
Political Note #251 Kim Schreier WA CD 08
Look at the recent Daily Bits on the website. Five Cheers for David Leonhardt, We've met the Deep State 2020 General Election In 2018, thirty-nine Republican Members of Congress decided not to run again. Ducking a blue wave? One of them was Dave Reichert, the Republican Representative from Washington’s Eighth Congressional District. His retirement made Kim Schreier’s candidacy for Congress a little easier. Not easy, though. She won by a little more than 15,000 votes. In preparation for 2020, twenty Republican Members of Congress have decided not to run again. Ducking a blue wave? It is still 2019. Republicans have…
Political Note #249 Jon Hoadley MI CD 06
Thirty years and worlds apart. Jon Hoadley is the latest Democrat to try to defeat Fred Upton.
Political Note #248 Jeff Van Drew NJ CD 02
Jeff Drew is a conservative Democrat, one of the two Democrats to oppose proceeding with impeachment. He is, however, a ferocious organizer on behalf of Democrats in a Republican area. He got himself elected as State Senator and then Congressman. He got Democrats elected to the NJ House as well.
Political Note #247 Sean Casten IL CD 6
Look at the recent Daily Bits on the website: Washington Post on the Hopeless Wall, Two Resisters Political Note #247 Sean Casten IL CD 6 2020 General Election Once upon a time being born in Dublin was an enormous advantage for a Chicago politician. The world has changed. The mayor of Chicago is a gay African-American woman. Many of the people who would have gloried in a Dublin-born mayor of Chicago have moved to the suburbs. Sean Casten https://castenforcongress.com/ was born in Dublin. He is in the suburbs of Chicago. In Downer’s Grove.…