Have Your Congress Critters Been Naughty Or Nice To Small Business?

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  December 14th at 04:48 PM  | 

Check the Facts on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) “Small Business Scorecard for the 111th Congress“. The map is here For the 111th Congress, SBE Council has scored members of the U.S. Senate on 27 key votes. Members who scored 90%-100% are “Champions of the Entrepreneur.” Those scoring 80%-89% are “Advocates of the Entrepreneur,” and Members scoring 70%-79% are “Friends of the Entrepreneur” | Read More »

Send House Committee Chairs Home for Good Nov. 2nd

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  October 18th at 06:32 PM  | 

I have listed below the names of twenty House committees and their Chairman. The Chairman of a House committee has a lot of power in the US House. This power is what professional lobbyists recognize when they decide which campaign they will finance. When times are hard the committee chairmen have a bigger target on their back than their colleagues, and this is why a | Read More »

I support Jon Barela on Immigration Reform

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  October 14th at 01:19 PM  | 

Jon Barela is the GOP nominee running for the NM-1 House seat. His opponent is Marty Heinrich, incumbent first elected to this seat in 2008. This district is in the middle of New Mexico, and includes Albuquerque. Republicans had held this seat until 2008, but the Cook PVI is D+5. Based on the Liberty Central scorecard for 12 votes by Heimrich, the residents of this | Read More »

That Was Then – This Is Now

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  October 9th at 06:41 PM  | 

Donna Brazile In 1994 and 2000, there were 24 black G.O.P. nominees. And you didn’t see many of them win their elections. J.C.Watts OK-04 is the only black GOP to serve from Jan. 1995 to Jan 2003. This district is R+18. I do not like the condescending tone of Donna Brazile, but the history is what it is. I want this election in 2010 to | Read More »

Good News for Michigan GOP

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  October 8th at 02:53 PM  | 

Most folks think of Michigan as a blue state economic basket case. One thinks about strong unions and car manufacturers, and how many obstacles have been created by Federal and State government to stifle any incentives to invest in this State. The two US Senators are liberal Ds, and 8 of the 15 US House seats are held by Ds. This November 2, 2010 midterm | Read More »

Let’s Party Like It’s 1894!

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  August 31st at 04:45 PM  | 

After the financial panic of 1893, in Grover Cleveland’s 1894 midterm, Democrats went from 218 to just 93 of 357 House seats. Between 1892 and 1894, Democrats lost 125 House seats, about 35 percent of the total. Can Obama’s 2010 midterm be comparable? RCP has 111 D seats being contested and 16 R seats being contested in 2010. This means the GOP needs to be | Read More »

Joe Walsh Can Defeat Melissa Bean

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  August 16th at 03:53 PM  | 

   I smell fear in Rep. Bean. This US House District 8 is the northwest suburbs of Chicago, and Charlie Cook is still calling this a likely D outcome, but she certainly does not act like it. The contest is a 3-way race between her, Republican Joe Walsh, and Green Bill Scheurer. Here is a recent article, 8th Congressional hopefuls spar over health care. An | Read More »

Cookie-cutter candidates face personal integrity candidates Tuesday, August 3rd

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  July 31st at 01:07 PM  | 

Republicans are terrified of being labeled partisan and mean-spirited, and most Republicans got to where they are politically by being nice guys or girls. That “hail fellow well met” that served you so well in the Legislature, Chamber, or the Rotary will just get you screwed in the executive branch. – Art Chance This diary focusses on five House races on Tuesday, August 3rd with | Read More »

Hey Tom Davis. Stop Lying about New England

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  July 25th at 04:02 PM  | 

Hey Tom Davis! May I call you Tom? Stop lying about New England. I saw an article yesterday from the Boston Globe, GOP may miss chances in N.E., and the narrative they are pushing is that the GOP is only contesting 3 out of 22 of the US House seats in New England. They suggest the reason this is the case is because there are | Read More »

Improved Outlooks in Two House Contests

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  July 12th at 02:30 PM  | 

Harold Johnson NC-08 Kristi Noem SD-AL Over the past month since I first wrote this diary, The Battleground Contests for 2010, two improvements have occurred. The contest for the South Dakota at-large House seat is now rated by Real Clear Politics as leans GOP instead of toss-up, and the North Carolina 8th congressional district is now rated as a toss-up instead of leans Dem. While | Read More »

Southern conservatives show signs of color-blindness

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  June 25th at 11:26 AM  | 

Kyle Wingfield recently wrote a column in the Atlanta Journal Constitution with the headline of this diary, and the fit hit the shan from the comments he received from the left. I say if they start squealing you must doing something right. Here is an excerpt: Conventional wisdom holds that America’s changing demographics, with whites expected to lose their majority status nationally within a few | Read More »

Meet Bill Marcy R-Cand. MS-02

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  June 22nd at 11:55 AM  | 

Mississippi’s congressional delegation includes two Republican Senators, one Republican in the House, and three Democrats in the House. This is a conservative state and yet Real Clear Politics only sees one of the three House seats held by Travis Childers as a potential pickup seat for the Rs. Even the chair of the Mississippi GOP did not think they could beat Bennie Thompson. I hope | Read More »

The Battleground Contests for 2010

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  June 10th at 09:09 PM  | 

Rand Paul had this to say after winning the Kentucky primary race for US Senate. I have a message, a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words: We’ve come to take our government back. Barney Frank said this recently to an audience of young democrats. You can reach out to your fellow young people and | Read More »

Fab Four vs Obama Establishment

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  May 19th at 07:11 PM  | 

There are four candidates for the US House who I think deserve to be noticed. These are people who do not have a famous last name and have never served as a city councilman, a state legislator, or worked as a staff member for any member of the US Congress. These four have sat on the sidelines watching the central planning powers grow in the | Read More »

How RedState Got Her Groove Back

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  April 5th at 12:36 PM  | 

Lately I sense a feeling of malaise and surliness when I visit RedState. The signing of the health care bill sucks, and a feeling of hopelessness and defeat start to to take hold. Here is what I think can happen that can change this atmosphere – we can continue to win special elections. There are FIVE, count ‘em FIVE, special elections for US House seats | Read More »

Special Election in April – Why Not The General Election in April?

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  April 2nd at 10:17 AM  | 

Florida district 19 Edward Lynch There is a special election on Tuesday April 13th, 2010 for the US House in Florida’s District 19. This is not a primary, and the winner of this election will become a member of the US House. The Republican is Edward Lynch, and if you or anyone you know lives in this district, that is the most important piece of | Read More »

2010 US House Pickups in Texas

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  March 3rd at 09:25 PM  | 

Texas has 32 House seats, and 12 of these are currently held by a D. There will be a run-off GOP primary on April 13th for six of these twelve. We have a name for a GOP candidate in the 2010 general election for the other six seats. Below is a table where I list these House seats and order them by what I consider | Read More »

2010 US House Freshman Class

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  December 16th at 07:35 PM  | 

In 2010 there are 435 seats in the US House that are going to be filled. Currently these seats are occupied by 258 Ds and 177 Rs. I think that the GOP has a good shot at picking up enough seats so that in the next Congress the Rs will occupy 228, and the Ds will occupy 207 seats. I would hope that the GOP | Read More »