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2008 COMPETITIVE HOUSE RACE CHART

October 30, 2008

Below is a list of the competitive and potentially competitive House races for .

Likely: These seats are not considered competitive at this point but have the potential to become engaged.
Lean: These are considered competitive races but one party has an advantage.
Toss-Up: These are the most competitive; either party has a good chance of winning.

Bolded name denotes opposing party's seat
Italicized name denotes Freshman member
* denotes possible incumbent retirement
# denotes possible serious primary challenge

Democrats currently have 11 seats listed as Lean or Toss Up.
Republicans currently have 47 seats listed as Lean or Toss Up.

LIKELY DEMOCRATIC

LEAN DEMOCRATIC

DEMOCRATIC TOSS UP

DIST. REPRESENTATIVE PVI
AZ-1 OPEN (Renzi) R+2
AZ-5 Harry Mitchell R+4
AZ-8 Gabrielle Giffords R+1
IL-14 Bill Foster R+5
IN-9 Baron Hill R+7
KS-3 Dennis Moore R+4
KY-3 John Yarmuth D+2
MN-1 Tim Walz R+1
MS-1 Travis Childers R+10
NY-13 OPEN (Fossella) D+1
NY-20 Kirsten Gillibrand R+3
NY-24 Michael Arcuri R+1
NY-25 OPEN (Walsh) D+3
OH-18 Zack Space R+6
OR-5 OPEN (Hooley) D+1
PA-4 Jason Altmire R+3
TX-23 Ciro Rodriguez R+4
VA-11 OPEN (Davis) R+1

14 DEMOCRATS
4 REPUBLICANS

DIST. REPRESENTATIVE PVI
CA-11 Jerry McNerney R+3
FL-24 Tom Feeney R+3
GA-8 Jim Marshall R+8
IL-11 OPEN (Weller) R+1
KS-2 Nancy Boyda R+7
NM-1 OPEN (Wilson) D+2
OH-15 OPEN (Pryce) R+1
OH-16 OPEN (Regula) R+4
PA-10 Chris Carney R+8
PA-12 John Murtha D+5
WI-8 Steve Kagen R+4

6 DEMOCRATS
5 REPUBLICANS

DIST. REPRESENTATIVE PVI
AL-5 OPEN (Cramer) R+6
LA-6 Don Cazayoux R+7
NH-1 Carol Shea-Porter R+0
PA-11 Paul Kanjorski D+5
TX-22 Nick Lampson R+15

5 DEMOCRATS
0 REPUBLICANS

REPUBLICAN TOSS UP

LEAN REPUBLICAN

LIKELY REPUBLICAN

DIST. REPRESENTATIVE PVI
AL-2 OPEN (Everett) R+13
AK-AL Don Young R+14
CA-4 OPEN (Doolittle) R+11
CO-4 Marilyn Musgrave R+9
CT-4 Christopher Shays D+5
FL-8 Ric Keller R+3
FL-21 Lincoln Diaz-Balart R+6
FL-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R+4
ID-1 Bill Sali R+19
IL-10 Mark Kirk D+4
KY-2 OPEN (Lewis) R+13
LA-4 OPEN (McCrery) R+7
MD-1 OPEN (Gilchrest) R+10
MI-7 Tim Walberg R+2
MI-9 Joe Knollenberg R+0
MN-3 OPEN (Ramstad) R+1
MN-6 Michele Bachmann R+5
MO-9 OPEN (Hulshof) R+7
NE-2 Lee Terry R+9
NV-3 Jon Porter D+1
NJ-3 OPEN (Saxton) D+3
NJ-7 OPEN (Ferguson) R+1
NM-2 OPEN (Pearce) R+6
NY-26 OPEN (Reynolds) R+3
NY-29 Randy Kuhl R+5
NC-8 Robin Hayes R+3
OH-1 Steve Chabot R+1
PA-3 Phil English R+2
VA-2 Thelma Drake R+6
WA-8 Dave Reichert D+2

30 REPUBLICANS
0 DEMOCRATS

DIST. REPRESENTATIVE PVI
AZ-3 John Shadegg R+6
CA-50 Brian Bilbray R+5
IN-3 Mark Souder R+16
MO-6 Sam Graves R+5
NV-2 Dean Heller R+8
OH-2 Jean Schmidt R+13
SC-1 Henry Brown R+10
TX-7 John Culberson R+16
TX-10 Michael McCaul R+13
VA-5 Virgil Goode R+6
WV-2 Shelley Moore Capito R+5
WY-AL OPEN (Cubin) R+19

12 REPUBLICANS
0 DEMOCRATS

DIST. REPRESENTATIVE PVI
AL-3 Mike Rogers R+4
CA-3 Dan Lungren R+7
CA-46 Dana Rohrabacher R+6
FL-13 Vern Buchanan R+4
FL-16 Tim Mahoney R+2
FL-18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R+4
IL-6 Peter Roskam R+3
IA-4 Tom Latham D+0
MN-2 John Kline R+3
NJ-5 Scott Garrett R+4
NC-5 Virginia Foxx R+15
NC-10 Patrick McHenry R+15
OH-7 OPEN (Hobson) R+6
PA-6 Jim Gerlach D+2
PA-15 Charlie Dent D+2
PA-18 Tim Murphy R+2
VA-10 Frank Wolf R+5

16 REPUBLICANS
1 DEMOCRATS

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