According to SSP's DavidNYC (http://www.swingstateproject.com/)Fmr. Democratic Governor Tony Knowles is going to run agenst Republican Governor Frank Murkowski or whoever the GOP nominee is. Tony Knowles will easily clear his primary field out and is a top-tier challenger to Murkowski. On the GOP side Murkowski will have to deal with a hard Republican challenge for the nomination. Murkowski is very unpopular his approval ratings in the 20's (2nd worst in the country). I personally wanted Knowles to run for the senate in 2008 but indeed this is great news for the Governors race. I think this is now at least a Lean D race.  

Three polls came out today on Senate races.

The first is the Pennslyvania Senate race from Rasmussen:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/Sta te%20Polls/April%202006/Pennsylvania%20S enate%20April.htm

Casey (D) 51%
Santourm (R) 38%

NJ Sen: Taken from Q-Pac. (no link yet.)

Menedez (D) 40%
Kean Jr. (R) 34%

and RI from Rhode Island College: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/27/ 145228/370

Chafee (R) 51%
Whitehouse (D) 32%
Undecided 17%

Whitehouse (D) 50%
Laffey (R) 27%

Republican Primary:

Chafee (R) 56%
Laffey (R) 28%

CQpolitics a respected Website that monitors polls and trends in elections has changed it's ratings on six house races. All six changes bring good news for Dems.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/2006/04/editor s_note_upcoming_rating_c.html

Nagin and Landrieu go into a runoff no surprize though I am surprized Nagin pulled off with 30%+ allthough that being said about 65% voted for anybody but Nagin. Here are the Results i saw

Nagin (D) 39%  
Landrieu (D) 28%
Forman (D) 17%
(everybody else got less.)

My own personal favorite was Tom Watson but I like Landreu over Nagin so i'll support him though i'm not from New Orleans I just hope as an outsider that Landrieu pulls it off. Also I hope Watson considers running agenst William Jefferson (D-CD-02) in a primary challenge Jefferson needs to go.

I saw these numbers over at Swing state Ohio blog so thought i would share them. If they have allready been put here i'm sorry i'll delete this post but if not check it out: http://swingstateohio.blogspot.com/

Ohio Governor:

Strickland (D) 52% (50)
Blackwell (R)  35% (40)

Ohio Senate:

Another list of House races that i belive will be competitive in 2006. Take a look let me know if you think i should add or take one off. (Note: This is only Democatic Targets.)

Dr. Bob Bowman is a Fighting Democrat fighting to get on the FL ballot. This is not an easy task he needs 5,000 signatures to get on the ballot but i suspect that they will need 8,000 in order to get on because our state officals are all Republican and they search for any small errors in petitions. Bob Bowman is a great candidate he wants to pull our troops out of Iraq, he wants to end the NSA wiretap program that is spying on innocent Americans he wants a fair miniumm wage for all Americans. He supports equal rights for Homosexuals and he is very pro-choice. Before i go on about Mr. Bowman here is a map of the district: http://www.bowman2006.com/district15.htm and a little bit about our useless congressman Dave Weldon.

The title says it all according to MSNBC Cunnignham (R-CA) has been sentenced to 8 and 1/2 years in jail. Have fun there Duke. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/3/18134/53990