I have to say, I like the layout of The West [Coast S]Wing: it’s a project by the NRCC to fundraise $100 grand for the fall elections in response to Obama and Pelosi fundraising at an elitist Hollywood function tonight. Matching contributions from Republican House Members, so go nuts.
Generally speak, I have to say: the new NRCC website aesthetics are pretty good. Solid, not flashy, not gimmicky. Good work there.
The NRCC has drawn up a map of all 435 Congressional Districts, separated them out by state, and linked each district to the website of either the incumbent Republican that represents it, or the Republican that will be challenging the incumbent Democrat in November.
Note that in cases of contested primaries without an incumbent (like, say, FL-05’s) the NRCC is explicitly not taking sides by picking any particular campaign to highlight; they’ll put up the website of a candidate who is the only one in a primary, which makes sense.
I’ve been playing with this feature for a bit, and the NRCC came through on this one: it’s straightforward, easy to use, and it’s going to save me a good deal of work. I suggest that folks use it, particularly if they feel the need to concretely express their disapproval of the latest Democratic Member of Congress’s shenanigans. And with 430 of 435 races being contested, folks usually can.
Moe Lane
Republicans have found candidates to run in 430 of 435 districts this fall, a total that tops the party’s previous high of 427, which was set in 1996.
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In 2006, there were 422 Democrats on the ballot compared with 388 Republicans. Last cycle, House Democrats put up 420 candidates to Republicans’ 392.
Oh, I guess we’re just going to have to forgive the NRCC this one time, though. Continue reading #rsrh *Only* 430 of 435?
Just to be clear, this is the Brian Walsh who is the political director of the NRCC, and not the Brian Walsh who is the communications director of the NRSC. We spoke for a bit on the recent past and the rapidly approaching future:
To expand on the third question a bit: sites like Reverse the Vote also exist to assist the eventual Republican candidates in a host of Democrat-held districts. As Brian noted, the important thing here is to flip the House.
Moe Lane
PS: Those who are interested in helping Charles Djou over the finish line via phone banking can go here.
Crossposted to RedState.
Way to bury the ledes there, WaPo.
I suppose that I should be nicer. After all, the Washington Post bothered to actually report that there has been a heavy surge in female recruitment by the GOP this cycle (H/T: The New Ledger):
Nearly two years after Sarah Palin became the Republican Party’s first female nominee for vice president, record numbers of Republican women are running for House seats, driving the overall count of women running for both the House and the Senate to a new high.
The surge in female candidates has taken place largely under the radar. The previous high came in 1992, the “Year of the Woman” that pushed the percentage of women in Congress into the double digits for the first time. That year, 222 women filed to run for the House and 29 for Senate contests.
So far this year, 239 women are candidates for the House and 31 for the Senate, according to data from the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics.
Continue reading NRCC outrecruits DCCC with female candidates.
[UPDATE] Welcome, Instapundit readers. To save time: we need implementation of the good ideas we’ve had already more than we need new good ideas; if I have a choice between bondage-themed clubs and more of this I’d like the bondage-themed clubs, thanks; and the grassroots activists that we have now are not public utilities, and many do not like being volunteered to work.
My advice to GOP donors: Ignore ‘em, and send your money directly to candidates you like.
Moe Lane:
…Just resign yourself to the fact that doing so will limit November’s victories to candidates that can somehow manage to get your attention.
You don’t like the RNC, the NRSC, and/or the NRCC? Fine. You got something that will replace them? You have something that will allocate resources to every race, work with every candidate, keep track of the Other Side’s mistakes and pounce on them? Let me save you some time: no, you don’t. You don’t have anything that’s even close. And if there is anything that’s even close that’ll be in place in time to be a meaningful factor in November, I have not heard its name.
If you have a problem with the Republican party’s candidate selection system, join the Republican party and start doing all the boring scutwork involved with candidate selection. You’ll be amazed at how quickly you’ll be in a position to do something about your problems.
Moe Lane
PS: Please note that this reflects my personal, private opinion and nobody else’s.
I’d like to unpack this paragraph from the Hotline, mostly because the assumptions behind it are in in large part why the Democrats all of a sudden have found themselves in trouble this election cycle.
But the elections present a problem for the NRCC, too. The 2 specials so far during Pres. Obama’s term have both been in GOP-heavy seats. Dems have won both. The DCCC knows how to run and win a race; special elections put pressure on the NRCC, which already has limited resources, to demonstrate they can too.
To begin: “The 2 specials so far during Pres. Obama’s term have both been in GOP-heavy seats. Dems have won both.”
Err. No. To quote a scientist friend of mine; that’s not even wrong. Continue reading The 2009/2010 special elections, to date.
And by ‘fun’ I mean… actually, by ‘fun’ I mean ‘fun.’ Just because it makes Democratic staffers’ teeth grate doesn’t make it any less fun for and by the NRCC. Quite the contrary, in fact.
Well, well, well. Short version? All three Republican national committees raised more than their Democratic counterparts for the first time in… well, a while.
A while.
| Raised | CoH | Debts | |
| RNC | 7.69 | 9.46 | 0.00 |
| DNC | 7.42 | 10.74 | 3.72 |
| NRSC | 4.60 | 12.86 | 0.00 |
| DSCC | 4.00 | 14.30 | 0.42 |
| NRCC | 5.08 | 6.06 | 0.00 |
| DCCC | 4.35 | 19.82 | 0.67 |
| GOP | 17.37 | 28.38 | 0.00 |
| Dem | 15.77 | 44.86 | 4.81 |
Continue reading Reviewing the February 2010 Fundraising numbers.
If it seems that this video fails to take today’s health care Kabuki theater summit seriously, well:
…think of it this way: it’s taking it just as seriously as the Democratic party is. The only difference here is that the NRCC swapped out Democratic arrogance for GOP mockery.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
