Your House voting history

[Virginian87]

This is my first House election, and I still don't know who to vote for:  Tom Davis (R) or Andrew Hurst (D).

[merseysider]

I'm out of the loop on this one.  Who is Jim Giles?

I think he's a white supremacist who's running against Republican Chip Pickering in MS-3 (no Dem is running).
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Surely the Democrats could have found someone - didn't that seat used to be held by a Democratic congressman who Pickering beat in 2002, or am I getting mixed up?

Looking at American election results, I'm often amazed by the number of people elected with no, or token third party, opposition.

Here in the UK there is a tradition that every party stands in every seat, even if it's just a paper candidate. I've personally stood twice in hopeless city council seats, for no other reason than that people have a right to vote Labour, a right about 20-30% of them wanted to exercise.

[merseysider]

House of Commons voting history

1997: Jane Kennedy (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree)
2001: Jane Kennedy
2005: Jane Kennedy

[nclib]

Surely the Democrats could have found someone - didn't that seat used to be held by a Democratic congressman who Pickering beat in 2002, or am I getting mixed up?

Pickering beat Democratic ex-Rep Ronnie Shows in 2002. Shows represented an adjacent district that was merged into Pickering's in the 2002 redistricting.

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Surely the Democrats could have found someone - didn't that seat used to be held by a Democratic congressman who Pickering beat in 2002, or am I getting mixed up?

Pickering beat Democratic ex-Rep Ronnie Shows in 2002. Shows represented an adjacent district that was merged into Pickering's in the 2002 redistricting.

yep, the legislature had no balls and placed South Madison County (home sweet home) into Pickering's district rather than Thompson's, which makes more sense geographically.  Basically this guaranteed that Thompson and Pickering are pretty much always safe, which is dumb.