Crooks and Liars

Friday July 4, 2008 07:30 am

Congressional Races: Things Are Looking Up For Democratic Candidates

By Nicole Belle

The Cook Political Report (subscription req'd) has looked at 30 congressional races and upgraded them for the Democratic Party.  Many of these races are in heavily entrenched Republican areas, but it's clear that the prevailing attitude towards the GOP and the great work these Democratic candidates have been doing (often with help from the netroots) has put a whole bunch more of the House in play:

AL-03 Mike Rogers                    Solid Republican to Likely Republican
CA-46 Dana Rohrabacher           Solid Republican to Likely Republican
FL-08 Ric Keller                         Likely Republican to Lean Republican
FL-09 Gus Bilirakis                    Solid Republican to Likely Republican
FL-18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen          Solid Republican to Likely Republican
FL-21 Lincoln Diaz-Balart           Likely Republican to Lean Republican
ID-01 Bill Sali                             Solid Republican to Likely Republican
IN-03 Mark Souder                    Solid Republican to Likely Republican
IA-04 Tom Latham                    Solid Republican to Likely Republican
KY-02 OPEN (Lewis)                Solid Republican to Likely Republican
MN-02 John Kline                      Solid Republican to Likely Republican
NE-02 Lee Terry                       Solid Republican to Likely Republican
NV-02 Dean Heller                    Solid Republican to Likely Republican
NJ-05 Scott Garrett                  Solid Republican to Likely Republican
NY-13 OPEN (Fossella)            Toss Up to Lean Democratic
NY-25 OPEN (Walsh)               Toss Up to Lean Democratic
NC-10 Patrick McHenry           Solid Republican to Likely Republican
OH-07 OPEN (Hobson)            Solid Republican to Likely Republican
PA-03 Phil English                    Likely Republican to Lean Republican
PA-05 OPEN (Peterson)          Solid Republican to Likely Republican
PA-11 Paul Kanjorksi                Likely Democratic to Lean Democratic
PA-15 Charlie Dent                   Solid Republican to Likely Republican
TX-07 John Culberson             Solid Republican to Likely Republican
TX-10 Michael McCaul            Solid Republican to Likely Republican
VA-05 Virgil Goode                  Solid Republican to Likely Republican
VA-10 Frank Wolf                    Solid Republican to Likely Republican
WV-02 Shelley Moore Capito   Likely Republican to Lean Republican
WY-AL OPEN (Cubin)             Solid Republican to Likely Republican