Republican House Election Priorities
In the summer of 2007, in connection with investigations into political briefings held at the General Services Administration, a power point briefing delivered by Karl Rove's aide Scott Jennings was leaked to the media. It included the following lists of top districts being targeted by Republicans in 2008.
Top 20 House Seats Republicans Will Target
(Ranked by priority. * indicates prior PeacePAC endorsee)
1 - TX-22 (Lampson)*
2 - FL-16 (Mahoney)
3 - CA-11 (McNerney)*
4 - OH-18 (Space)*
5 - IN-09 (Hill)*
6 - PA-10 (Carney)
7 - PA-08 (Murphy)*
8 - KS-02 (Boyda)*
9 - PA-07 (Sestak)*
10 - IN-08 (Ellsworth)
11 - NC-11 (Shuler)
12 - TX-23 (Rodriguez)
13 - Wi-08 (Kagen)
14 - GA-08 (Marshall)
15 - IN-02 (Donnelly)
16 - GA-12 (Barrow)
17 - PA-04 (Altmire)*
18 - NY-19 (Hall)*
19 - NY-20 (Gillibrand)*
20 - SD-AL (Herseth)
House GOP "Priority Defense"
(Ranked by priority)
1 - PA-06 (Gerlach)
2 - FL-13 (Buchanan)
3 - NC-08 (Hayes)
4 - NM-01 (Wilson)
5 - CO-04 (Musgrave)
6 - IL-06 (Roskam)
7 - CT-04 (Shays)
8 - OH-02 (Schmidt)
9 - VA-02 (Drake)
10 - WY-AL (Cubin)
11 - CA-04 (Doolittle)
12 - NV-03 (Porter)
13 - NY-25 (Walsh)
14 - OH-15 (Pryce)
15 - NY-29 (Kuhl)
16 -NJ-07 (Ferguson)
17 - MI-09 (Knollenberg)
