2004 Democratic Primary

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Oh I know.
Ontario has over 100 seats. Sask has 14.
I was reflecting on the irony of politics in the Praries

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ru from Canada, or just an observer?  

I have a second cousin originally from B.C who later moved to Manitoba.
I also have an interest in mining regions, so I've always liked Cape Breton.
Oh I'm also part Viking

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No ABD the U.K is not a small c conservative country.
In every election since 1945 the total vote of the centre-left(Lab+Lib) has been higher than the total vote of the centre-right(Con)
This was even the case in 1983(!)

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A bit scary though

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I'm under 20. No more information will be given

And I don't think that knowing more about U.S politics than PD is much of an achievment

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I like Nova Scotia a lot as well(my second cousin lived there before moving to BC(!) then Manitoba), and in many ways the Atlantic provinces can be seen as a northern extension of Appalachia. The problems are depressingly similer...

The NDP dominate the Halifax area, and are a strong second party in Cape Breton(and if Martin acts the way I think he might...)
The rest of the province, the "Mainland" is fishing territory, and although the NDP do better there than in similer areas in the rest of Canada, they are relativly weak in the Mainland.

Saskatchwan has a long tradition of left wing farmers, and the NDP pushed the Liberals into third there in 2000!

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Texas is a bit of a mystery to me(South? no. West? no. South West? no. etc), but I'll give it a go tomorrow.

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[names done like in France, which also has numbered districts etc]

One GOP congressman retired and was replaced by another. I don't know which one but will update list when I know.

This is part one: districts 1 to 6. When they are all done I'll do a composite list.

Texas

01. Texarkana=Max Sandlin D
02. Texas East=Jim Turner D
03. Dallas North=Sam Johnson R
04. Red River Valley=Ralph Hall D(R)
05. Dallas South=Jeb Hensarling R
06. Tarrent, Ellis=Joe Barton R

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I've almost got the next 5 done, sorry it's been a bit slow but it's exam time at the moment...
I've changed the name of Hall's seat after checking an atlas for the name of the river.

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The names are for the current map, not the DeLay map, as lots members have decided to stand down and/or don't know which seat to stand in.
At least one has no incumbent.

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07. Harris= John Culberson R
08. Harris-Montgomery=Kevin Brady R
09. Gulf Coast=Nick Lampson D
10. Austin=Lloyd Doggett D
11. Waco=Chet Edwards D

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Over here: unemployment drops again. Now almost at pre-Thatcher levels.
Exception is (suprise, suprise) Northern Ireland where unemployment has risen again.

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Nice to see you back again

Anyhow... some rumours (not sure how accurate any of them are) :

1. Dennis Mills (LPC, Toronto-Danforth) will not seek re-election
2. The NDP and the LPC have both been trying to recruit former Saskatchwan Premier, Roy Romanow and former BC Premier, Ujjal Dosanjh as candidates for the 2004 elections.
3. Stockwell Day will run for leadership of the CPC.

Again I repeat that I can't be sure of the accuracy of any rumour.

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Excellent site!

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I'd guess that the second one is almost certainly true (although neither party is likely to be sucessfull), I'm not sure about Mills standing down, but it does seem possible, and I also doubt that Day will run for leadership of the CPC, but you never know what way Day's ego will go sometimes...

One rumour I have also heard is that Bernard Lord will stand for CPC leader.
He has however, emphatically denied this (including an official statement), and besides... I can't see a Red Tory with an NDP-leaning past wanting to lead a party based around Albertan rednecks anyway...

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The eastern border of Texas is Southern, but the rest of the state isn't.

The one part of Texas I can't place are Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth and their attached legions of suburbs.
Are they completly unique?

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Justin... the CPC have a fight on their hands... for second place.
They are not going to come close to beating Martin.

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Latest Ipsos-Reid poll:

LPC 48%
CPC 19%
NDP 16%
BQ   10%
Grn   04%

And Ipsos-Reid has a right wing bias...

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I'm going to give this yet another go...

District's will be listed by Number (eg. NY-1, 2, 3 etc), and the number will be followed by the name.

Former congressmen/president's name's may be used as well as and on combination with geographical names.
Whether said congressman was defeated will not make a differance.

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Alabama

1. Mobile-Baldwin
2. Montgomery-Dothan
3. Montgomery-Auburn
4. Gadsden-Hamilton
5. Tennessee Valley
6. Jefferson-Shelby
7. Birmingham

Arkansas

1. Jonesboro-West Memphis
2. Little Rock
3. Fayetteville-Ozarks
4. Pine Bluff-Clinton

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New York

01. Suffolk East
02. Suffolk West
03. Nassau East
04. Nassau West
05. Queens-Nassau
06. Queens South East
07. Queens-Bronx
08. Manhatten-Brooklyn
09. Queens-Brooklyn-Jamaica Bay
10. Brooklyn-Bays
11. Brooklyn Central
12. Manhatten-Queens-Brooklyn
13. Staten Island
14. Manhatten-Queens
15. Harlem
16. South Bronx
17. Bronx-Rockland
18. Westchester-Rockland
19. Hudson Valley
20. Saratoga Springs-Glens Falls
21. Albany-Troy
22. Catskills
23. Adirondacks
24. Utica-Rome
25. Syracuse
26. Roosevelt
27. Buffalo
28. Niagara-Rochester
29. Allegany-Steuben

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Realpolitik--you fogot to include my birthplace of Coney Island in your district titles.  Please do so, it hurts me not to see it

Which district is Coney Island in?

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Iowa

1. Waterloo-Dubuque*
2. Cedar
3. Des Moines-Hoover
4. Winnebago
5. Sioux

*Could also be called Upper Mississippi

Illinois

01. Chicago Southside
02. Chicago Heights
03. Chicago West
04. Chicago Cicero
05. Chicago Northside
06. DuPage
07. Chicago Central
08. Lake-McHenry
09. Chicago Northside
10. North Chicago
11. Joliet
12. East St Louis and the Valleys
13. Will-DuPage
14. Batavia-Henry
15. Wabash
16. Rockford
17. Rock Island-Springfield
18. Springfield-Peoria-Lincoln
19. Kaskakia

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I don't think they will (the CPC has Alberta...)

BTW Ralph Klein has done it again.
He seems to have said that Health Care is not sustainable (translation: he want's it privatised).
Not exactly news, but that man is an embarrassment.
He's already helped to re-elect the NDP in Saskatchwan (!)...

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Upper Mississippi does have a nice ring to it.