It looks as if the folks at CQ Politics have finally noticed that there doesn't seem to be much of a race in the 19th:
New York's 19th(New Rating: Democrat Favored. Previous Rating: Leans Democratic). The failure by the Republican Party to recruit a top-tier candidate to challenge first-term Democratic Rep. John Hall has pushed the race further in favor of the former Orleans rocker ("Still The One"). Republican Kieran Michael Lalor, an Iraq War veteran who works the night shift of a union job and campaigns during the day, is a first-time candidate. The Republican county committees rallied behind Lalor as their standard bearer for the Hudson Valley district, but only after recruitment stumbles. The DCCC lists Hall as one of their "Frontline Democrats" that the party will fight to protect and Hall enters the race with a serious fundraising advantage. He reported raising $1.9 million and had $1.3 million on hand by June 30 while Lalor reported raising $227,000 and had $151,000 on hand by the same date.
All told, CQ updated 14 House races this morning, all but two of them in favor of Democrats. |
