This week's topic continues on the more overtly political theme we have been doin the past several weeks:
- Is your Congressperson a Democrat or a Republican?
- If they are a Democrat, are you happy with them? Or would you support a primary challenge aganist them because they are they too conservative, or too liberal, or too mediocre or crooked for you?
- If they are a Republican, do you think there is a serious expensive challenge to be mounted against them. Is there a realistic basis for a serious challenge in 2008? What is the evidence for this (e.g., won by less than 5%, changing democraphics in district, scandal; please be realistic. Yes, there should be a candidate challenging in every district. But with limited dollars we really cannot make a strong expensive push in every district. So be realistic and grounded in cold hard facts if you think there should be a challenge.
As always this will work best if it were to stay up in the Recommended list into the evening west coast time, to allow the largest number of people throughout the country to have a chance to see it, comment and participate in the poll.
In comments, let us know who the congressperson is and why the opinion you have. Tell us the story!
It seems to be to be useful and interesting to know where we are coming from. How many of us are living in...
- Democratic districts and just pissed at the way other districts vote; lol.
- Republican districts that could be flipped and are really really needing input from others... and should be active beyond dKos.
- hardcore Repug districs and just need dKos community for therapy to stay sane?
- Dem districts that are tenuous and need to fight to keep it that way?
- Dem districts, but the congresscritter incumbent sucks anyway?
- I could have (should have?) included a category for currently Democratic district that is tenuous and could flip Republican, but I refuse to allow for that possibility in the current environment. BOO YAH!
Take the poll and tell us your district's story.
P.S.: Depending on response, I may stop doing these regular Demographic Tuesdays. Response number are way down in recent weeks, suggesting some combination of general interest is down and/or I am boring and/or specific topics of less interest... let me know if there are untapped topics I should still cover, or just let it go? Not a woe is me, threat, just a matter of use of time. Also a matter of validity... if the the polls are not up throughout the day, then they are less likely to have any validity as to being even somewhat representative of the Daily Kos community.
Update - Demographic Tuesdays' Polls to Date:
Quick summary: Within the limits of the validity of the polls (selection bias; not a random sample of dKos registered users; self selection), we are reasonably representative of the U.S. as whole in Age distribution, and by geography both by States/Regions and by Urban-SubUrban-Rural (I consider the latter two a pleasant surprise). We are 2:1 Male to Female which on the one hand is not equal, but on the other hand is better than some might expect or than other areas of life and politics. We are much much Whiter, wealthier, and more educated than the U.S. as a whole or the Democratic Party.