We had an Obama office opening close to here last night, so I’ll give you my impressions and you may then extend my remarks about this office opening out to the entire country. This is how you know you’re at the right address, when you see cars like this one: First, it was a good …
Election 2018
This Week in Local Races
It’s been a while since we discussed local races, so here’s a thread for that. Usually at this time of the year, we have a few good primary challenges, a lot of fundraising, and hopefully somebody says something dumb enough that it will make a good campaign commercial later this Fall. Here’s my report: In …
Local Political Blogs
I haven’t been explicit about this, but some of the Rochester readers probably know that I ran a blog about NY-29 called the Fighting 29th. I thought that would be my last effort, but redistricting put me in a new district with a competitive race, so I started a new blog, Roc25, to follow it. …
Today’s Local Races: Washington State
Reader HW3 sends in this report on the races in Washington: I live in the newly expanded 1st Congressional District, a formerly safe progressive district, where Rep. Jay Inslee served for years. It now reaches from the Microsoft suburbs and gobbled up the second district to the Canadian border. There’s quite the field running for …
Local Races: MI-3
Comments were pretty positive on my post yesterday about the House race in my district, so I’m going to start posting fairly regularly as long as I can find new material. If I don’t have new material, I’ll just make a thread so you can tell us about your local race. To kick things off, …