Subject: RE: Iraq escalation campaign
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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:03:03 -0500

Great analysis. Thanks for sending Tom.  Our firm was very happy to be
involved in 07.  Thanks

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Subject: Iraq escalation campaign

Friends,

I spent a little time today going through results from Senate and
House races and comparing them to our Iraq work in 2007. (See lists
below.) Of the 23 wins that the DCCC has so far, 19 of them were
AAEI/Iraq Summer targets in 2007. This obviously constitutes the bulk
of the House wins this year. Among these districts most of them had
paid organizers in them, all of them had our calling program going
into them, some of them had advertising in them. Most were Iraq Summer
targets as well.

In the Senate, the Iraq Campaign in 2007 targeted seven senators
in-cycle. Four of them were defeated. There were other Iraq Senate
targets who were not in-cycle. And other competitive Senate races this
year that were not Iraq campaign targets.

It is a record to be proud of.

While obviously the work we did was advocacy, the public did fulfill
part of the promise of "political extinction."

With president-elect Obama we can now hope and pray for peace.

-Tom Matzzie

Nineteen of 2007's Iraq Campaign House Targets Retired or Were Defeated

CO-4: Marilyn Musgrave (defeated, Democratic pickup)
CT-4: Chris Shays (defeated, Democratic pickup)
FL-24: Tom Feeney (defeated, Democratic pickup)
FL-8: Ric Keller (defeated, Democratic pickup)
IL-11: Jerry Weller (retired, Democratic pickup)
MI-7: Mark Walberg (defeated, Democratic pickup)
MI-9: Joe Knollenberg (defeated, Democratic pickup)
NC-8: Robin Hayes (defeated, Democratic pickup)
NJ-3: Frank Lobiondo (retired, Democratic pickup)
NM-1: Heather Wilson (retired, Democratic pickup)
NM-2: Steve Pearce (retired, Democratic pickup)
NV-3: Jon Porter (defeated, Democratic pickup)
NY-25: Jim Walsh (retired, Democratic pickup)
NY-29: Randy Kuhl (defeated, Democratic pickup)
OH-1: Steve Chabot (defeated, Democratic pickup)
OH-16: Ralph Regula (retired, Democratic pickup)
PA-3: Phil English (defeated, Democratic pickup)
VA-11: Tom Davis (retired, Democratic pickup)
VA-2: Thelma Drake (defeated, Democratic pickup)

Senate--4 of 7 in-cycle senators were replaced with a Democrat

NC-Sen: Elizabeth Dole (defeated, Democratic pickup)
NH-Sen: John Sununu (defeated, Democratic pickup)
VA-Sen: John Warner (retired, Democratic pickup)
NM-Sen: Pete Domenici (retired, Democratic pickup)
MN-Sen: Norm Coleman (too close to call)
ME-Sen: Susan Collins (Did not defeat)
KY-Sen: Mitch McConnell (Did not defeat)
CO-Sen: Not targeted on Iraq
OR-Sen: Not targeted on Iraq
AK-Sen: Not targeted on Iraq
GA-Sen: Not targeted on Iraq