2008 Georgia Congressional Elections
I've been working on list of candidates for next year's Congressional elections, this is what I've been able to find so far. Most of it came from Politics1.
There are no changes in Congressional districts this year. You can view last year's results here or here. My initial impression is that Democrats will have a tough time unseating any Republicans considering the fact that no Republican member of the Congressional delegation received less than 67% of the vote in 2006 and Democrats in the special election in the 10th District collectively pulled in just over 28% just a few months ago and failed to get a candidate in the runoff, which is worse than they did in the district in 2006. Perhaps beating Jim Whitehead was their victory.
I'm not saying that Democrats can't win in any Republican controlled district, anything is possible, but you have to be realistic about their chances. It doesn't look good.
Paul Broun may lose his bid for re-election in the primary as he goes up against the establishment candidate. I hate for the guy but the odds are against him, but on the other hand the odd were against him this year too.
Jim Marshall and John Barrow are probably going to be safe simply because the NRCC is going to be defending seat of retiring Republicans and the quality of the candidates going up against them is poor at best.
Speaking of Jim Marshall...he should win any challenge from a candidate to the left of him. If he should lose, and this is only a hypothetical because I just don't see it happening, the district will be a Republican pick-up. Democrats should hold their nose and support Marshall if they want the seat to stay out of Republican hands.
Incumbents are listed in italics and potential candidates have this * next to their names. This is by no means a final list. I'll be adding to it until the primaries in July.
United States Senate (Class II)
- Saxby Chambliss (R)
- Jim Martin (D)
- Allen Buckley (L)
United States House of Representatives
First District...
- Jack Kingston (R)
- Bill Gillespie
Second District...
- Sanford Bishop (D)
- Lee Ferrell (R)
Third District...
- Lynn Westmoreland (R)
- Stephen Camp (D)
Fourth District...
- Hank Johnson (D)
Fifth District...
- John Lewis (D)
Sixth District...
- Tom Price (R)
- Bill Jones (D)
Seventh District...
- John Linder (R)
Doug Heckman (D)
Eighth District...
- Jim Marshall (D)
- Rick Goddard (R)
Ninth District...
- Nathan Deal (R)
- Jeff Scott (D)
Tenth District...
- Paul Broun (R)
- Bobby Saxon (D)
Eleventh District...
- Phil Gingrey (R)
- Bud Gammon (D)
Twelfth District...
- John Barrow (D)
- John Stone (R)
Thirteenth District...
- David Scott (R)
- Deborah Honeycutt (D)
Comments
Thirteenth District, David scott is incumbnet and a democrat. D.Honeycutt is running against him and is a republican
Posted by: Ms. Sleeper | September 30, 2008 09:23 AM