Filing deadlines

[Minnesota Mike]

Congressional filing deadlines for 2024 that are before the end of 2023. Alabama only a week away.

Alabama- 11/10/23
Arkansas- 11/14/23
Illinois- 12/4/23
California- 12/8/23
Texas- 12/11/23
North Carolina- 12/15/23
Ohio- 12/20/23

https://ballotpedia.org/State_and_federal_candidate_filing_deadlines_for_2024

[Minnesota Mike]

I know it's tough to recruit candidates to run hopeless races but it seems in parts of the deep south the Democratic Party has ceased to exist. In Alabama with a week to go before the filing deadline only AL-02 & AL-07 have Democratic candidates. Republicans have candidates in all 7 CDs.

https://aldemocrats.org/2024-qualified-candidates

https://algop.org/2024-qualified-candidates/

In Arkansas Dems do not have a candidate in AR-01 or AR-04.

Of course there will probably be filings in at least some of these districts but right now things are looking bleak for Dems in the first two states to close filings. Not that they have a chance to win any of the open districts but it would be nice to run somebody.

[Tekken_Guy]

I know it's tough to recruit candidates to run hopeless races but it seems in parts of the deep south the Democratic Party has ceased to exist. In Alabama with a week to go before the filing deadline only AL-02 & AL-07 have Democratic candidates. Republicans have candidates in all 7 CDs.

https://aldemocrats.org/2024-qualified-candidates

https://algop.org/2024-qualified-candidates/

In Arkansas Dems do not have a candidate in AR-01 or AR-04.

Of course there will probably be filings in at least some of these districts but right now things are looking bleak for Dems in the first two states to close filings. Not that they have a chance to win any of the open districts but it would be nice to run somebody.

Has there ever been a case where all of Alabama's red seats were uncontested by Democrats?

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

I know it's tough to recruit candidates to run hopeless races but it seems in parts of the deep south the Democratic Party has ceased to exist. In Alabama with a week to go before the filing deadline only AL-02 & AL-07 have Democratic candidates. Republicans have candidates in all 7 CDs.

https://aldemocrats.org/2024-qualified-candidates

https://algop.org/2024-qualified-candidates/

In Arkansas Dems do not have a candidate in AR-01 or AR-04.

Of course there will probably be filings in at least some of these districts but right now things are looking bleak for Dems in the first two states to close filings. Not that they have a chance to win any of the open districts but it would be nice to run somebody.

AR-04 has Hope… comeback kid comebacks again???

[Minnesota Mike]

I know it's tough to recruit candidates to run hopeless races but it seems in parts of the deep south the Democratic Party has ceased to exist. In Alabama with a week to go before the filing deadline only AL-02 & AL-07 have Democratic candidates. Republicans have candidates in all 7 CDs.

https://aldemocrats.org/2024-qualified-candidates

https://algop.org/2024-qualified-candidates/

In Arkansas Dems do not have a candidate in AR-01 or AR-04.

Of course there will probably be filings in at least some of these districts but right now things are looking bleak for Dems in the first two states to close filings. Not that they have a chance to win any of the open districts but it would be nice to run somebody.

Has there ever been a case where all of Alabama's red seats were uncontested by Democrats?

I wouldn't think so.

There is a Dem in AL-01 who filed with the FEC in May but has not raised any money or filed with the state party yet.

[smoltchanov]

I know it's tough to recruit candidates to run hopeless races but it seems in parts of the deep south the Democratic Party has ceased to exist. In Alabama with a week to go before the filing deadline only AL-02 & AL-07 have Democratic candidates. Republicans have candidates in all 7 CDs.

https://aldemocrats.org/2024-qualified-candidates

https://algop.org/2024-qualified-candidates/

In Arkansas Dems do not have a candidate in AR-01 or AR-04.

Of course there will probably be filings in at least some of these districts but right now things are looking bleak for Dems in the first two states to close filings. Not that they have a chance to win any of the open districts but it would be nice to run somebody.

Has there ever been a case where all of Alabama's red seats were uncontested by Democrats?

Question in response: what are the reasons to run in a hopeless distict? I honestly see none. And in Alabama all districts, besides 2nd and 7th, are hopeless now...

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

I know it's tough to recruit candidates to run hopeless races but it seems in parts of the deep south the Democratic Party has ceased to exist. In Alabama with a week to go before the filing deadline only AL-02 & AL-07 have Democratic candidates. Republicans have candidates in all 7 CDs.

https://aldemocrats.org/2024-qualified-candidates

https://algop.org/2024-qualified-candidates/

In Arkansas Dems do not have a candidate in AR-01 or AR-04.

Of course there will probably be filings in at least some of these districts but right now things are looking bleak for Dems in the first two states to close filings. Not that they have a chance to win any of the open districts but it would be nice to run somebody.

Has there ever been a case where all of Alabama's red seats were uncontested by Democrats?

Question in response: what are the reasons to run in a hopeless distict? I honestly see none. And in Alabama all districts, besides 2nd and 7th, are hopeless now...

There’s the narrative that democrats don’t care about rural voters, so it feeds into that. There’s also the “Doug Jones/Joseph Cao” scenario, basically having a competent candidate on standby should the likely winner implode so you can pick up the seat.

[MarkD]

Illinois's filing deadline is a month from now? Ewwww, .....

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I know it's tough to recruit candidates to run hopeless races but it seems in parts of the deep south the Democratic Party has ceased to exist. In Alabama with a week to go before the filing deadline only AL-02 & AL-07 have Democratic candidates. Republicans have candidates in all 7 CDs.

https://aldemocrats.org/2024-qualified-candidates

https://algop.org/2024-qualified-candidates/

In Arkansas Dems do not have a candidate in AR-01 or AR-04.

Of course there will probably be filings in at least some of these districts but right now things are looking bleak for Dems in the first two states to close filings. Not that they have a chance to win any of the open districts but it would be nice to run somebody.

In 2008 notably ALL congressional seats in Arkansas were uncontested. All incumbents did not receive a single opponent, including third party or primary. (back then it was 3 Democrats and 1 Republican.)

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

I know it's tough to recruit candidates to run hopeless races but it seems in parts of the deep south the Democratic Party has ceased to exist. In Alabama with a week to go before the filing deadline only AL-02 & AL-07 have Democratic candidates. Republicans have candidates in all 7 CDs.

https://aldemocrats.org/2024-qualified-candidates

https://algop.org/2024-qualified-candidates/

In Arkansas Dems do not have a candidate in AR-01 or AR-04.

Of course there will probably be filings in at least some of these districts but right now things are looking bleak for Dems in the first two states to close filings. Not that they have a chance to win any of the open districts but it would be nice to run somebody.

yeah Dems don't bother really. They focus where they know they can win, if anyone files it's on their own. I know because in SC-3 we've only had the same businessman run for Dems aside from 2018 where a local teacher ran instead. 2022 we had nobody. Hence why I did my write-in "campaign"

[Minnesota Mike]

Filing has now closed in Alabama. There may be some more paperwork in the pipeline that is not on the website yet but as of filing closing time:

Dems: Candidates in AL-01, AL-02, AL-06, and AL-07. No candidate AL-03, AL-04, AL-05.  13 candidates have filed for the new AL-02.

Reps: All districts have at least 2 candidates running including the matchup of 2 incumbents in AL-01. Largest field is 8 candidates in AL-02.

[Zedonathin2020]

When does filing end in Tennessee??

[Benjamin Frank]

According to Ron at politics1.com this is the final slate:
https://www.politics1.com/al.htm

You can check out all other candidates in all other states (though Ron isn't perfect), including filing deadlines.

For an example of imperfection, politics1.com still has Paul Theobold running for the Senate in Nebraska.

[Benjamin Frank]

I know it's tough to recruit candidates to run hopeless races but it seems in parts of the deep south the Democratic Party has ceased to exist. In Alabama with a week to go before the filing deadline only AL-02 & AL-07 have Democratic candidates. Republicans have candidates in all 7 CDs.

https://aldemocrats.org/2024-qualified-candidates

https://algop.org/2024-qualified-candidates/

In Arkansas Dems do not have a candidate in AR-01 or AR-04.

Of course there will probably be filings in at least some of these districts but right now things are looking bleak for Dems in the first two states to close filings. Not that they have a chance to win any of the open districts but it would be nice to run somebody.

yeah Dems don't bother really. They focus where they know they can win, if anyone files it's on their own. I know because in SC-3 we've only had the same businessman run for Dems aside from 2018 where a local teacher ran instead. 2022 we had nobody. Hence why I did my write-in "campaign"

Bring back the '50 state strategy.'

[smoltchanov]

According to Ron at politics1.com this is the final slate:
https://www.politics1.com/al.htm

You can check out all other candidates in all other states (though Ron isn't perfect), including filing deadlines.

For an example of imperfection, politics1.com still has Paul Theobold running for the Senate in Nebraska.

IMHO -rather weak list for Democrats (in AL-2): no Hatcher, no Reed, a lot of candidates from outside district (Birmingham, Huntsville, and so on). 1 more or less serious candidate from Mobile and 1 - from Opelika. In such situation Republicans may seriously try ro win - they have couple of serious candidates (btw - conservatives, of course, but not an extreme right-wingers).

[Minnesota Mike]

Arkansas filing has closed. All races are contested by both parties. Next up Illinois in 3 weeks.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Arkansas filing has closed. All races are contested by both parties. Next up Illinois in 3 weeks.

Did dems put up sane people this time? AR-04 is still hilarious and weird since the D was a "stop the steal, the CIA killed JFK" conspiracy type but also supported trans people and weed.

[TML]

Arkansas filing has closed. All races are contested by both parties. Next up Illinois in 3 weeks.

Did dems put up sane people this time? AR-04 is still hilarious and weird since the D was a "stop the steal, the CIA killed JFK" conspiracy type but also supported trans people and weed.

It appears that the Democratic nominee for AR-04 in 2024 will be a black woman. This will probably reduce the likelihood of said candidate believing in the same kind of fringe theories that the previous nominee apparently believed in.

[smoltchanov]

Arkansas filing has closed. All races are contested by both parties. Next up Illinois in 3 weeks.

Did dems put up sane people this time? AR-04 is still hilarious and weird since the D was a "stop the steal, the CIA killed JFK" conspiracy type but also supported trans people and weed.

It appears that the Democratic nominee for AR-04 in 2024 will be a black woman. This will probably reduce the likelihood of said candidate believing in the same kind of fringe theories that the previous nominee apparently believed in.

Will it matter after all? The chances to win this district are exactly zero. Even if Democratic candidate will be "The God Allmighty" himself....

[Alben Barkley]

I know it's tough to recruit candidates to run hopeless races but it seems in parts of the deep south the Democratic Party has ceased to exist. In Alabama with a week to go before the filing deadline only AL-02 & AL-07 have Democratic candidates. Republicans have candidates in all 7 CDs.

https://aldemocrats.org/2024-qualified-candidates

https://algop.org/2024-qualified-candidates/

In Arkansas Dems do not have a candidate in AR-01 or AR-04.

Of course there will probably be filings in at least some of these districts but right now things are looking bleak for Dems in the first two states to close filings. Not that they have a chance to win any of the open districts but it would be nice to run somebody.

AR-04 has Hope… comeback kid comebacks again???

He would join John Quincy Adams among Presidents who went on to serve in the House of Representatives.

[Minnesota Mike]

Next filing deadlines coming up.

Illinois- Tomorrow, Dec 4.

https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionOperations/CandidateFilingSearch.aspx?ID=rfZ%2buidMSDY%3d

With one day of filing left 16 of the 17 incumbents have filed for re-election. The only one not to file so far is Jonathan Jackson (D) in dark blue IL-01. I would assume Jackson files tomorrow but as of today there are no democrats running in IL-01.

The most interesting primary is in IL-12 where 2022 GOP Governor nominee Darren Bailey is challenging Mike Bost.

Besides IL-01 no Democrats have filed so far in IL-15, and IL-16. No Republicans have filed IL-03, IL-04, IL-09 and IL-10.

California- Filing closes Friday Dec 8 in most races and Wed Dec 13 for those races where the incumbent is not running for re-election. Watching to see if Kevin McCarthy files by Friday. Filing takes place at the county level in California and I am not ambitious enough to dig through county websites to see who already has filed, at some point the state will release a list.

Texas- Monday Dec 11. A week left so not going to read a lot into it but a lot of seats are currently uncontested by one party or the other.

[Minnesota Mike]

Illinois filing deadline has passed. All 17 incumbents have filed for re-election. Republicans did not field a candidate IL-04 or IL-09. Democrats did not field a candidate in IL-15 or IL-16. I don't know the Illinois specific rules if those slots can be filled by the parties or by write ins later but for the moment they are are uncontested by one of the major parties. A couple interesting primaries.

IL-07: In 2022 Danny Davis won a closer than expected primary over Kina Collins 52-46. Collins is running again but so are 4 other candidates probably splitting the anti Davis vote.

IL-12: Republican incumbent Mike Bost faces off against 2022 GOP Governor candidate Darren Bailey.

[Oryxslayer]

Tomorrow is the last day to file in TX. GOP has yet to file candidates in 5 urban Dem seats, Dems in 9 in the rural west and East Texas. Notably Cuellar is the only dem registered in his district, and looks to be dodging another repeat challenge.

CA deadlines have been extended as per law in the districts with retirements, aka all the ones we knew about. No shock retirements besides McCarthy earlier.

[Roll Roons]

Tomorrow is the last day to file in TX. GOP has yet to file candidates in 5 urban Dem seats, Dems in 9 in the rural west and East Texas. Notably Cuellar is the only dem registered in his district, and looks to be dodging another repeat challenge.

CA deadlines have been extended as per law in the districts with retirements, aka all the ones we knew about. No shock retirements besides McCarthy earlier.

Any other last-minute surprise retirements in Texas?

[Minnesota Mike]

Tomorrow is the last day to file in TX. GOP has yet to file candidates in 5 urban Dem seats, Dems in 9 in the rural west and East Texas. Notably Cuellar is the only dem registered in his district, and looks to be dodging another repeat challenge.

CA deadlines have been extended as per law in the districts with retirements, aka all the ones we knew about. No shock retirements besides McCarthy earlier.

Any other last-minute surprise retirements in Texas?

Biggest question is will Sheila Jackson Lee unretire after losing the Houston Mayors race. My guess would be yes. And as mentioned above I am watching to see if Henry Cuellar avoids a progressive primary challenge. His only Republican challenger so far also appears to be nobody, any other Republicans jump in?