How accurate was the "GOP Death List"?

[FLAprogressive]

From DownWithTyranny:

Pretty accurate. The memo ranked 57 vulnerable Republican-held seats in the House plus 19 Democratic-held seats where they thought they had a shot. Lets look at the Democratic seats first. It would have been impossible not to put serial adulterer and anti-progressive hack Tim Mahoney (FL-16) in any spot but #1. Mahoney defines "treacherous and untrustworthy," opportunistically betraying his lifelong political party, the Republicans, the moment Rahm Emanuel whispered in his ear that Mark Foley was fooling around with young boys and that the story would break before the 2006 election. He then betrayed his wife and family by chasing multiple women and having affairs with them, all the while betraying the Democratic Party by voting time and again with the GOP on key substantive items. What a mess!

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The other Democratic seats they thought they had a good shot at were AL-05, from which Bud Cramer is retiring, NH-01, scene of a classic rematch between a strong progressive and a typical corporate stooge and reactionary rubber stamp, PA-10, a match between a right-wing Democratic freshman and an even more right-wing Republican, and TX-22, also a match between a right-wing Democratic freshman and an even more right-wing Republican. The open seat in Alabama was tight but the reactionary Democrat beat the reactionary Republican. The much ballyhooed New Hampshire re-match, despite millions of dollars worth of smear ads being run against Carol Shea-Porter by GOP front groups, only further proved that voters there were through with the GOP. When Carol first beat Bradley in 2006 she took the race with 100,899 to his 94,869. Last week she won with 176,461 to his 156,394. In PA-10 Carney was re-elected with 56% and in TX-22 Nick Lampson was beaten, garnering only 45%. Why would any with progressive inclinations vote for anyone as reactionary as he is, even if the Republican was worse?

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In Louisiana they lucked out when a moderate African American state Senator, Michael Jackson, pulled 12% of the vote, making it possible for Bill Cassidy to beat ultra-reactionary nominal Democrat Don Cazayoux, 48-40%. He deserved to lose. Nancy Boyda didn't, but the moderate Democrat was beaten by a moderate Republican Lynn Jenkins, 51-46%. Democrats won the rest of the seats, including OR-05's open seat where far right extremist loon Mike Erickson only garnered 38% of the vote, another Republican fanatic coming face to face with reality.

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It was great to see Musgrave lose....and Virgil Goode. And even though he was a "Dem" (in name only), it was pretty sweet to see Rahm's boy Mahoney lose. I am however kind of pissed that the DCCC poured money into reactionary tools like Cazayoux and Bobby Bright as opposed to progressives like Vic Wulsin and Annette Taddeo.

[sharp_stick]

1. Virgil Goode Lost?

Damn I didn't hear about that. I had no idea that asshat was ever in danger, that is excellent news.

[FLAprogressive]

2. yup....it was a real close race but he did .... one of the bigger upsets besides Boyda losing....n/t