2018 gubernatorial races

Blue America is primarily a PAC that vets and supports candidates running for the House. That's our bailiwick.

Thanks to Schumer, Arizona won't have a good choice in NovemberOn Thursday, after the FISA vote, we saw how the whole Republican wing of the Democratic Party abandoned the Democrats and voted with Trump and Paul Ryan to expand spying.

Ohio is one of those super-gerrymandered states whose state legislative districts and congressional districts were drawn by the Republicans to make it impossible for Democrats to win seats. Keep in mind that Obama won statewide in 2008 and 2012— 2,940,044 (51.38%) to 2,677,820 (46.80%) in 2008 and 2,827,709 (50.67%) to 2,661,437 (47.69%) in 2012.

Suppose you found yourself in charge-- for a week. One week to clean up America. Would shooting plutocrats Sheldon Adelson, Rebekah (and Robert) Mercer and Foster Friess be part of the plan? (We’ll leave the Koch brothers out of this for a moment, because this post isn’t really about shooting anyone.)Who remembers when Adam “Howdy Doody” Putnam retired from Congress in 2009? Little Howdy Doody had one dream… to be governor of Florida.

-by Tom Wakely,Democratic candidate for Governor of TexasThe filing deadline for the 2018 March Democratic primary has closed. We now know who all the Democratic candidates for Texas Governor are. The question that needs to be asked I will argue is this: do we want the Texas Democratic Party to move further to the right, return to the center or move to the left.

This doesn't work in Florida any longerBlue America endorsed Andrew Gillum for governor of Florida on Monday. Looking back over that post, I decided we needed a better look at two things-- who Gwen Graham is and who Andrew Gillum is. Let me work on the Andrew part of this for a few days so I get it right.

A couple of nights ago, centrist MSNBC host Joy Reid tweeted that "The consequences of elections can be grave, America. Voting to 'shake things up' or 'send an outsider to Washington' or going third party to 'send a message' can mean literal life, death or suffering for lots of people.

I feel like Austin Frerick, the former Treasury Department economist running for Congress in the Des Moines-based Iowa seat (IA-03), has become a friend aside from just one of the Blue America-endorsed candidates. I feel like I learn something every time I talk with him.

-by Tom WakelyCandidate for Governor, TexasThe 2018 election season is officially underway in Texas.Candidate filing began Saturday, November 11th for next year's March 6 primaries. The filing period runs through December 11th.

Daniel Biss can be the next governor of Illinois-- if he beats 3 billionairesWe've mostly talked about the Trump/Ryan toxicity fallout in terms of congressional races-- and I imagine we'll stay on that subject right through the end of 2018. However, as we saw in Oklahoma Tuesday, Trump/Ryan toxicity is working its magic on state legislatures.