Wow, pretty good. The district should still have a decent white majority though. It wouldn't be enough to elect a liberal black, but it would probably have a white Blue Dog or even a Sanford Bishop-type moderate black.

Keep the Katy Perry pics to a minimum, please.

Pryor (normal).

FF.

An LSU alumnus too, I might add

It was like 6.8 a few weeks ago, though I'm down slightly.

Malcolm Graham is running.

State Rep. Marcus Brandon, of Guilford County, is also likely in.

Graham should probably be favored, if nothing else because of geography.

Jones may have two primary challengers. Scott Dacey, a Craven County Commissioner, may run.

I updated the OP for the House races. I'll be updating it regularly, as I did with the NC 2012 Congress thread.

New Poll: North Carolina Senator by Public Policy Polling on 2013-05-20

Summary: D: 49%, R: 40%, U: 11%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details

Rogers would start out trailing by 7.

in b4 "franken used felons to steal election"

It looks like he won't need to rely on the felons to win in 2014 though XD

WV: Likely/Safe R
SD: Likely R
AR: Tossup/Tilt R
LA: Tossup
AK: Tossup/Tilt D
NC: Lean D
MT: Tossup if Open/Likely D with Schweitzer
IA: Lean D
MI: Lean D
GA: Lean R

His populist polices were good. FF, apart from the racial integration stuff.

FF. 'Would be a great President.

Option 2. I'm pro-life, but I think this is a bad approach.

Approvals:

Obama: 50/47
Franken: 51/42
Klobuchar: 61/28
Bachmann: 34/60

Matchups:

Franken (D)- 55%
Bachmann (R)- 38%

Franken (D)- 54%
Lewis (R)- 37%

Franken (D)- 51%
McFadden (R)- 36%

Franken (D)- 52%
Ortman (R)- 35%

Franken (D)- 52%
Rosen (R)- 36%

Franken (D)- 51%
Stanek (R)- 36%

Other than Bachmann, the Rs are unknown.

I've only heard about McFadden seriously considering running, so I used his numbers.

New Poll: Minnesota Senator by Public Policy Polling on 2013-05-19

Summary: D: 51%, R: 36%, U: 13%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details

Good for Reid. He was trying to do the best thing for the party.

I don't think he likes liberals.

[An example of this would be when Hitler advanced a universal healthcare system already in place.]

Time and time and again it is has been proven as a lie, and fraud designed to HURT the poor. An example of this would be when Hitler advanced a universal healthcare system already in place. It also wouldn't help our budget problems, as in every instance in the world, the universal healthcare is proven to increase the cost of healthcare significantly.

Generally, if you have to invoke Hitler, you're on the losing side of your argument.

I suppose I'm supposed to take all of you as the average, idiotic liberal?

If you want to be taken seriously, there are better ways to get your point across.

[Taxes are nonexistant.]

All citizens are mainline to Evangelical Protestants with a 100% churh attendance rate (I'm not biased at all). Taxes are nonexistant. Unions are heavily discouraged (They have NEVER done anything good, and collective bargaining is not a right). Trade school is the track for 2/3-3/4 of all students.

So I guess you're ideal country wouldn't have luxurious stuff like roads or libraries.

'Sounds pretty neat.

What bugs me the most is that lots of Republican pols act like he was Jesus.

Back in April, Vitter apparently talked Fleming out of the Senate race.

Yep, Dardenne/Vitter should be good:

Don't think it's a done deal that Sen. David Vitter will be Louisiana's next governor; he still has to get through Lieutenant Gov. Jay Dardenne. And Dardenne is making moves to show he's ready for a fight.

Dardenne has been fundraising aggressively since he won reelection in 2011 by a six-point margin. He held 22 fundraising events in 2012 and has another two coming up this month, according to Nungesser. As rumors were flying earlier this year that Dardenne could be a candidate for the Senate, he told Hotline On Call that he was focused on 2015 and had raised $850,000 in 2012 "just looking to the future." Dardenne is hoping to get a head start on the gubernatorial contest in order to "encourage some others who would maybe think about it to maybe not run," Nungesser said.