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State of the Senate - Uncontested Runs

Submitted by Robert P. on Thu, 02/23/2006 - 10:06am

I started this as a comment to Lance, but it ended up being larger than a comment deserves. This is a list of NC Senate seats that are uncontested (so far) in North Carolina. For now, we stand ahead 18-16 in the uncontested seats. The seats are posted below by party. Are there any we can immediately remove from the list? Seats where the "last second" strategy is in play? I see from a search of unopposed Republican seats that one is Basnight's seat - assuming he will run that makes it 18-15. Having that kind of lead is good, but it would be nice to END with something like 15-5.

DISTRICT 3
DEMOCRATIC EDGECOMBE CLARK JENKINS

DISTRICT 4
DEMOCRATIC HERTFORD ROBERT L.

DISTRICT 5
DEMOCRATIC WAYNE John Kerr

DISTRICT 7
DEMOCRATIC FRANKLIN DOUG BERGER

DISTRICT 9
DEMOCRATIC NEW HANOVER JULIA BOSEMAN

DISTRICT 10
DEMOCRATIC DUPLIN Charles W. (Charlie)

DISTRICT 11
DEMOCRATIC NASH A. B. Swindell

DISTRICT 14
DEMOCRATIC WAKE VERNON MALONE

DISTRICT 16
DEMOCRATIC WAKE JANET COWELL

DISTRICT 18
DEMOCRATIC CHATHAM Bob Atwater

DISTRICT 20
DEMOCRATIC DURHAM JEANNE H.

DISTRICT 25
DEMOCRATIC SCOTLAND Bill Purcell

DISTRICT 27
DEMOCRATIC GUILFORD KAY HAGAN

DISTRICT 28
DEMOCRATIC GUILFORD KATIE G.DORSETT

DISTRICT 32
DEMOCRATIC FORSYTH LINDA GARROU

DISTRICT 38
DEMOCRATIC MECKLENBURG Charlie Dannelly

DISTRICT 40
DEMOCRATIC MECKLENBURG Malcolm Graham

DISTRICT 43
DEMOCRATIC GASTON David W. Hoyle

DISTRICT 1
REPUBLICAN BEAUFORT Hood Richardson

Incumbent - Democrat Marc Basnight

DISTRICT 6
REPUBLICAN ONSLOW Harry Brown

DISTRICT 12
REPUBLICAN JOHNSTON FRED SMITH

DISTRICT 15
REPUBLICAN WAKE NEAL HUNT

DISTRICT 17
REPUBLICAN WAKE RICHARD STEVENS

DISTRICT 22
REPUBLICAN MOORE HARRIS BLAKE

DISTRICT 26
REPUBLICAN ROCKINGHAM Philip E. (Phil) Berger

DISTRICT 29
REPUBLICAN RANDOLPH Jerry W. Tillman

DISTRICT 30
REPUBLICAN SURRY DON W EAST

DISTRICT 33
REPUBLICAN DAVIDSON STAN BINGHAM

DISTRICT 34
REPUBLICAN DAVIE ANDREW C.BROCK

DISTRICT 35
REPUBLICAN UNION W. Edward (Eddie) Goodall, Jr.

DISTRICT 39
REPUBLICAN MECKLENBURG Robert Pittenger

I'm surprised no one is running against Pittenger. Mecklenburg is S.D.s neck of the woods, n'est pas? Okay, so if I just said chicken egg, you'll have to forgive my 8th/9th grade French. Also, there is the fact that Pittinger is a nutbag.

Sen. Robert Pittenger sits alone at one end of that spectrum. In his Feb. 5 essay "We aren't changing climate," he cites "authorities" that don't represent the position of scientists or policy-makers around the world, including the National Academy of Sciences and even President Bush. They agree pollution from coal plants, vehicle emissions and other fossil fuels has created a greenhouse gas envelope in our atmosphere that's warming our planet.


DISTRICT 41
REPUBLICAN GASTON James (Jim) Forrester PO BOX

DISTRICT 42
REPUBLICAN CATAWBA AUSTIN ALLRAN

DISTRICT 48
REPUBLICAN HENDERSON Tom Apodaca

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Comments

Are any of these other areas strongly Democratic?

Submitted by Robert P. on Thu, 02/23/2006 - 10:24am.

Or, are these all pretty safe Republican seats and we have challenged all the easy seats? It would be nice to have a 50 Seat Challenge for the Dems in North Carolina. These Senators will surely be pulling for Republican House candidates that are in overlapping districts. Anything we can do to keep that from happening would be welcome.

Jesus Swept ticked me off. Too short. I loved the characters and then POOF it was over.
-me

This needs editing on the FP

Submitted by Robert P. on Thu, 02/23/2006 - 10:47am.

The District 3 needs placed below the fold, then everything on the front page will not be in bold : )

Jesus Swept ticked me off. Too short. I loved the characters and then POOF it was over.
-me

I removed the strong tag

Submitted by Lance on Thu, 02/23/2006 - 11:54am.

Sorry. I'm generally happy with Civicspace and Drupal, but It's a source of stress for me that you can't set where the teaser ends on a post-by-post basis.

Ah, that explains a few weirdly truncated posts.

Submitted by Robert P. on Thu, 02/23/2006 - 12:02pm.

: )

Jesus Swept ticked me off. Too short. I loved the characters and then POOF it was over.
-me

Ok, Nevermind

Submitted by Lance on Thu, 02/23/2006 - 12:10pm.

I just figured out how to set the end of the teaser. The way is to put the following in your post:

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Everything before that will go on pages that only show teasers (like the front page and your "my blog" page), and everything below will only appear on that post's own page. Awesome.

Robert, I'll add the formatting back to your post and set the break before it.

Changes

Submitted by Robert P. on Sun, 02/26/2006 - 11:21pm.

We have a contender in 9, 14, 40.

That means the uncontested race is at 15-15. Great. Nice job.

Jesus Swept ticked me off. Too short. I loved the characters and then POOF it was over.
-me