Blogging the Campaign Trail

by Mike Hall, Oct 30, 2006

In a week and a day, we’ll find out if the nation’s electoral map has changed and if working families have wrested control of Congress away from President Bush and his rubber-stamp majority.

The punditry has declared some 40 races as pivotal and many of those are in districts long-thought to be Bush country. This week, blogger Adam Conner will be dropping in on seven races in the triangle where Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana meet.

Conner’s normal day job is blogging for former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner’s Forward Together PAC. He will post his reports over at MyDD on the races and how working families are working overtime with the AFL-CIO’s Labor 2006 program to get out the vote on Nov. 7. Connor will report from Ohio congressional districts 1 and 2, Kentucky districts 2, 3 and 4 and Indiana districts 8 and 9 (click on the district numbers for more information on these races from the AFL-CIO’s Labor 2006 website). Says Connor:

This area has a long history with the blogosphere and has been home to some of the most pivotal moments in the history of the netroots. Ohio’s Second District is best remembered for the special election in the summer of 2005 where Democrat Paul Hackett came within 3,785 votes (3.5 percent) of winning the election in a district that Bush had won with 64 percent just 10 months before.

Check out the AFL-CIO Political Action Center at www.votenov7.org, where you can learn about candidate positions on working family issues and download candidate comparison fliers.

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