It's like a who's who of fuck you.
From WashPost:
The special-election victory by Democrat Travis Childers last week sent a signal to all political junkies that the House playing field may be far wider than most assumed even a few weeks ago. Childers's win in a northern Mississippi district that President Bush carried with 62 percent of the vote in 2004 came less than two weeks after a Democrat won a Louisiana special election in a district where Bush had taken 59 percent in his reelection bid.
With the winds of change blowing directly into Republicans' faces, here is a look at a handful of GOP-controlled seats that could feel the effects. Bush's 2004 vote percentage is in parentheses.
You'll have to actually read the article to get all the info, but for those of you who don't have time to read the whole thing, here's my favorite part from page 2:
FIVE DAYS: Sen. John McCain plans to release his medical records and allow reporters to ask follow-up questions of his doctors about his health. McCain's age has been and will continue to be an underlying current of discussion in the campaign; a clean bill of health over the past eight years would go a long way toward pushing it to the back burner.
16 DAYS: Montana and South Dakota will cast the final votes of the Democratic primary season -- officially ending one of the most compelling races in modern political history.
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