Rhode Island has 2 representatives, both D, primary 9/14
District:RI-01
Location Northern and eastern RI, bordering MA and CT map
Cook PVI D + 13
Representative Patrick Kennedy (D) Retiring
VoteView 89
First elected NA
2008 margin NA
2006 margin NA
2004 margin NA
Obama margin 65-33
Bush margin 2004 36-62
Current opponents Democrats: David Cicciline, Bill Lynch. David Segal; Republicans: John Loughlin,
Demographics Not unusual on what I track
Assessment Safe for whichever Democrat wins; it's an overwhelmingly D district. Cicciline has $900K COH, Lynch about $100K (but debt), Segal about $80K, Loughlin about $100K
SSP rating: Likely D
My rating: Safe
District:RI-02
Location Most of the Rhode Island map
Cook PVI D + 9
Representative Jim Langevin (D)
VoteView 146
First elected 2000
2008 margin 70-30 over Mark Zaccaria
2006 margin 73-27 against an independent
2004 margin 75-21
Obama margin 61-37
Bush margin 2004 41-57
Current opponents A primary challenge from Betsy Donnigan, and then either Zaccaria again or Michael Gardiner.
Demographics Not unusual on what I track
Assessment Safe. Langevin has $500K COH, Dennigan $150K but self-financed; Zaccaria little. No info on Gardiner
Sources:
House vote in 2008 from WaPo
VoteView (ranked from 1 for most liberal to 447 for most conservative; more than 435 because some districts had more than one rep in the 110th congress)
Race Tracker
Obama vote by CD from Swing State
National Atlas for maps
FEC
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Post a CommentI'm beginning to worry about my favorites.
Well done as always Peter!