Isn't King in a potentially competitive district now?
More competitive. It dropped from 8.8% Pub PVI to 4.7% Pub PVI. So still strong Pub, but within reach for a centrist non confrontational low key Dem running against a kook. However as you know, the zone is still very socially conservative, and kind of backward actually, and so he is not in as much danger as he would be in a more cosmopolitan zone with these PVI numbers. He mostly needs to make sure that he keeps the agricultural welfare queens happy, and jettison fiscal discipline when it comes to them. Crack down on welfare for the poor, but not absentee landlord farmers like well Torie - that is the ticket.
