One of the joys of 2008: there are too many good races, too many viable opportunities to turn Red districts Blue on the electoral map. 
Sadly, on Kos’ latest map of the Western US, one of the opportunities that we all should be banding together to make a reality remains red. In CA-46, we have a true progressive, Debbie Cook, is facing a die-hard troglodyte, global-warming denying, immigrant bashing, etc … Dana Rohrabacher who might be “the biggest blithering idiot” on the Hill.
In the past few weeks, this race has tightened. We are talking within measure of error. Debbie doesn’t have DCCC behind her but she does have us. A few $XX.01s could help to flip a district which would, in this case, shift from deep (corrupt) red representation to truly a “better Democrat”.
Amid skyrocketing oil, gasoline, coal, and electricity (coming to a neighborhood near you) prices, 2008 offers Americans quite serious and stark choices between knowledgeable, impassioned, and thoughtful candidates when it comes to finding paths toward a prosperous 21st century economy, on the one side, and Fossil-Fool candidates focused on tightening our shackles to the ever-more costly (pollution, financial, otherwise) and archaic oil-coal based energy system.