Requirements:
>The incumbent is Virgil "MZM-Scandal" Goode (aka "Representative A" in the Mitchell Wade confession).
>The primary is locked up. Al's centrist opponent won 28% of the delegates, Al won 54%, and the uncommitteds should split about even; the official nominating convention is 2 weeks away.
>It's not a top-tier race. Al raised 500k last time, and this is a district where it doesn't cost $1.4M to run a competitive election; we're talking about $700k, and every dollar can be spent exposing Virgil's serious weaknesses. Since Al raised $500k in 2004, netroots attention could make the difference in this race. Virgil is also a target for High-Dollar donors because of his place in the top 10 or so congressmen in the culture of corruption.

Positives:
>Record: Al's record includes 42 years in the military and a lifetime of farming. He ran in 2004, and started a thinktank afterwards to promote switchgrass biofuels, health care, and higher education in rural Virginia. We're always talking about the need for infrastructure and local thinktanks like this -- Al put his money where our mouths are.
>Easy target: Think MZM. Virgil recently returned $88k of MZM money, and Mitchell Wade already confessed to illegally funnelling contributions to Goode's campaign fund. He was elected as a Democrat, and, though the massive numbers of independents didn't really notice when he switched parties, they're noticing what's going on in the country, the effects of which are magnified in the struggling rural southside of Virginia. These independents will be carrying the flag of the anti-incumbent backlash this time around.
>As I said, Virgil was elected as a Democrat, this district went for Kaine in 2005, has a critical mass of activists in 75-80% Democratic Charlottesville, VA. The district went for Bush in 2004, but that's exactly what we'd expect from an electorate dominated (I'm talking 50-60%) by independents.
>Where NJ has BlueJersey, VA has RaisingKaine, and there is now an active base of local and state bloggers.
>Larger strategy: culture. of. corruption. There's the added advantage that everyone we can get to vote for Al will vote for Jim Webb as well. Webb hasn't paid a lot of attention to this district so far (no offense guys, but you've been elsewhere in the state a lot more) so having some Democrat knocking on doors will be crucial for him to win this district. The election will be nationalized with help from the Band of Brothers and Al's 42 years of military service. One county in the district has the highest military enrollment rate, southside has been devastated by globalization, self-employed farmers stand to gain quite a lot from universal healthcare, and federal focus on renewable fuels could bring a lot of money to the area where the tobacco farmers have been going out of business.
>Partisanship litmus test -- he passes every single one. Gay marriage, check. Abortion, check. Universal health care, check. Iraq, check. Got another big one, I guarantee you he's on the right side -- unless it's about gun control; he's sort of a Paul Hackett type in that respect, (both support the assault weapons ban).