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| DCCC Gives Up on Multiple House Races |
| 2016-02-13 |
| [FREEBEACON] In announcing its most promising candidates challenging Republican congressmen this year, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) effectively admitted that it has given up on winning three House races in the 2016 election. On Thursday, the DCCC unveiled the first members of its "Red to Blue" program, designed to highlight promising Democratic candidates running in Republican-held districts. In sum, 31 candidates and districts make up the list for this election cycle. Notably absent from the list are the Democrats running in three districts held by first-term Republicans that the committee pledged to target one year ago. In February 2015, the DCCC unveiled its "One-Term Wonders" list, profiling 15 "vulnerable" freshmen Republican congressmen that it would scrutinize leading up to the 2016 election. Three of those "vulnerable" Republican districts--Arizona's 2nd district, Illinois' 12th district, and Pennsylvania's 6th district--are not being challenged by the "promising" Democratic candidates listed in the "Red to Blue" program. The DCCC also appears to have pulled its website for the "One-Term Wonders" candidates, a possible acknowledgment of its failure to target the first-term Republican representatives. The DCCC's "Red to Blue" candidates in 2014 had a combined record of 4 wins and 36 losses. UPDATE 3:55 P.M.: An archived version of the DCCC's "One-Term Wonders" website shows that two additional Republican-held districts that the committee intended to target in 2016 are not among the districts being challenged by its "Red to Blue" program candidates. This indicates that the DCCC has given up on winning a total of five House races in 2016. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 And enshrinement of the blessed sacrament of casual abortion as the highest law of the land. Posted by no mo uro .....because that is what the democratic party has been about for decades. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-02-13 08:45 |
| #2 Throwing all their money at Hillary. Two SCOTUS justices = permanent firewall against public pension reform and reduction of the percentage of public vs private employees, plus de facto annulment of the second amendment, plus final takeover of private business by the EPA. And enshrinement of the blessed sacrament of casual abortion as the highest law of the land. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2016-02-13 08:33 |
| #1 I wonder if they have a secret "Save Our A$$e$" campaign? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-02-13 08:28 |