Politico: GOP Going After Red-State Dems (9-30-09)
Republicans are seriously targeting a handful of veteran House Democrats from conservative-minded districts who haven’t drawn serious challengers in years.
The senior Democrats – Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton of Missouri, Science and Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon of Tennessee and Reps. John Tanner of Tennessee and Vic Snyder of Arkansas – all represent districts that John McCain comfortably carried in 2008, in states that also voted for the GOP presidential nominee over Barack Obama.
