Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n
* The race is over in New Mexico’s 1st congressional district and Rep. Heather A. Wilson (R) hung on<\/a> to beat state Attorney General Patricia Madrid (D) by just 875 votes. Madrid conceded yesterday, saying that a recount would cost too much and that there was no guarantee it would reverse the result.<\/p>\n * Similarly, in Ohio’s 2nd congressional district, Rep. Jean Schmidt (R) also clinched re-election<\/a> yesterday when additional ballot counts gave her an insurmountable edge of about 3,200 votes over Democratic challenger Victoria Wulsin.<\/p>\n * In New Hampshire, Gov. John Lynch (D) has said he won’t<\/a> take on Sen. John Sununu (R) in 2008, but yesterday, his predecessor said she might. Former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen (D) said she “has not ruled out<\/a>” another Senate campaign. If she runs, it will set up a rematch of the 2002 race that Sununu narrowly won, thanks in part to an illegal phone-jamming scheme set up by the state GOP.<\/p>\n * In Connecticut, state Rep. Diana Urban, who considered a fourth-party Senate campaign against Joe Lieberman this year, announced yesterday that she is switching<\/a> from Republican to Democrat. Of the 151 seats in the Connecticut House, now only 44 are filled by Republicans.<\/p>\n * In 2008 news, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) filed the paperwork<\/a> yesterday with the Federal Election Commission to create a presidential exploratory committee. The process was, however, a little odd — the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Exploratory Committee was created on Nov. 10, but he held off on filing the paperwork until yesterday, when the documents were hand-delivered to the FEC. Odd.<\/p>\n