TeddySanFran @ 127

Howie Klein @ 111

readerofTeaLeaves@110, we’re looking for candidates to recruit to challenge Ellen Tauscher in CA and Rahm in IL. Any serious suggestions would be appreciated. Also, we MUST find candidates to run against arch reactionaries and corrupt monstrosities like Jerry Lewis and Roy Blunt and dozens of other Repugs who get off scott free year after year.

Will Van Hollen work with Howard Dean to integrate the Dtrip’s efforts with the 50-state strategy? Running candidates everywhere and challenging every GOPer might come to fuller fruition in 2008 in some surprising places, given the (hard-won!) investment Dr. Dean’s made.

Depends on the top-of-the-ticket, too, where downticket races might turn on the message-popularity-gender-ethnicity of the standard-bearer.

That’s the kind of stuff I hope to find out when I meet with him. Please, anyone with suggestions, send them to me. I have a feeling that even if Van Hollen isn’t perfect he’s going to be a LOT better thane Emanuel. I really hope we’ll be able to work with him. There are a lot of good people at the DCCC, believe it or not.

I would stress:
1. Ditto on don’t screw over progressive candidates in the primaries the way Rahm supported Duckworth.
2. Work with, rather than separately from Dean.
3. Encourage unopposed Dems to fund raise and actively support other Dems, and do it early.
4. Pay more attention to voters, rather than the DC-based consultants that are systematically destroying the party.

Personally I feel we made tremendous headway in CA-25 and CA-45 with Robert Rodriguez and David Roth and I’d like to see them both continue to build a Democratic base in those districts.

Well, you did, and thank you, Howie. You were speaking up about Bono back in May. David Roth did make tremendous headway for Democrats here, which made it all the more crushing when we weren’t at least 45-55. But the usual spread was 2 to 1, and we narrowed it to 3 to 2.

Bono ultimately outspent Roth 4 to 1 (if what I read was accurate). She kept her mouth shut, avoided Roth as much as possible, and flooded local tv with ads in the last two weeks. We were barely on the air, we just didn’t have the bucks. But the DCCC did send us a lovely cake from The Cheesecake Factory on election night.

Had I been a bolder volunteer earlier on, David would have been at Yearly Kos with me (whatever the schedule conflicts), and been engaging the blogosphere directly much much earlier.

Thank you all for a brilliant Blue America campaign.

I don’t know yet if Roth will run in 08. His wonderful father, Richard, hopes he will, and so do I. Send your warmest thoughts to Richard Roth, as he just broke a hip.

Thanks for the links, john and Susan. What I am trying to find, though, is USSenate results by Congressional District. The SecState’s webpage shows results by county, but there are split counties in CA-4. My goal is to find out how many Feinstein voters in Doolittle’s district voted for him and not Charlie — how short her coattails were in the Congressional District.

Mmm, don’t know.

Well, gotta run

Happy New Year, All

How did Charlie do in Placer County? I think we ran most of our ads there

Placer County

Only 3,000 less than the ConMan, which is really great considering that that’s where his strongest support is – yuppie Republican drone transplants from SoCal and the Bay Area

Howie Klein @ 162

Angie Paccione? Robert Rodriguez? David Roth?

I like Angie and she came so close! What is your thought on Vic Wulsin?

I love Vic. I’m not sure if she’ll run again. Maybe Hackett will.