Democrats prime recruits to try to take back the House

[jaxx]

Democrats prime recruits to try to take back the House
By Deirdre Walsh, CNN Senior Congressional Producer
updated 2:11 PM EST, Sun January 29, 2012

(CNN) -- Just 15 months after taking a thumping in the 2010 midterm elections, House Democrats have seized on the current anti-Washington fervor and are confident they can win the 25 seats they need to regain control of the House.

<..> To flip control of the House back just one cycle after losing it, the House Democrats' campaign operation is relying on a class of new recruits, just inducted into its "Red to Blue program" that targets Republican seats.

<..> The DCCC's "Red to Blue program" -- created by its former chief Rahm Emmanuel in 2006, when Democrats took back control of the House for the first time in 12 years -- identified three dozen Republican-held seats in swing areas that Democrats believe they can win in 2012. In half of these districts, the committee is backing a candidate. In the other half, it is awaiting results from primaries, but is already committed to helping the Democratic candidate, whoever it may be, with money and other organizational resources this fall.

CNN interviewed three of the 18 candidates who visited Washington: Jose Hernandez, an astronaut whose family worked on farms in central California; Val Demmings, the first female police chief in Orlando, Florida; and Jamie Wall, a businessman from Wisconsin.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/29/politics/d...index.html

Good read. This is what we need.

[SeattleGirl]

It includes the names of the candidates that are running:

http://www.dccc.org/pages/redtoblue

[jaxx]

Thanks for the page. We need all those seats back plus more!!

[azmouse]

With disaster brewing for the Republicans no matter who gets their nomination, it could be a very good year for Democrats to pick up a few seats.