In less than 15 months the midterms will be upon us.
In 2006 we fielded candidates in 425 districts and in 2008 candidates in 421.

How will we go in 2010?

Since my last update many more intrepid Democrats stepped up to run in Republican held Districts.

AK-AL (Young) - R+13,
AZ-03 (Shadegg) - R+9,
AZ-06 (Flake) - R+15,
FL-15 (Posey) - R+6,
FL-21 (Diaz-Balart) - R+5,
FL-25 (Diaz-Balart) - R+5,
GA-10 (Broun) - R+15,
IL-06 (Roskam) - R+0,
IL-16 (Manzullo) - R+2,
IL-19 (Shimkus) - R+9,
IN-03 (Souder) - R+14,
IN-05 (Burton) - R+17,
IA-04 (Latham) - R+0,
IA-05 (King) - R+9,
KS-01 (Moran OPEN) - R+23,
KS-02 (Jenkins) - R+9,
MI-02 (Hoekstra OPEN) - R+7,
MN-02 (Kline) - R+4,
MN-03 (Paulsen) - R+0,
MS-03 (Harper) - R+15,
MO-08 (Emerson) - R+17,
NE-01 (Fortenberry) - R+11,
NE-02 (Terry) - R+6,
NC-09 (Myrick) - R+11,
NC-10 (McHenry) - R+17,
OH-14 (LaTourette) - R+3,
PA-18 (Murphy) - R+6,
PA-19 (Platts) - R+12,
TX-06 (Barton) - R+15,
TX-12 (Granger) - R+16,
TX-19 (Neugebaeur) - R+26,
TX-22 (Olsen) - R+13,
VA-10 (Wolf) - R+2,
WA-04 (Hastings) - R+13,
WV-02 (Capito) - R+8,
WI-05 (Sensenbrenner) - R+12,

Below the fold for all the details and hey go check out the 2010 Race Tracker Wiki over at Open Congress for all your House, Senate and Gubernatorial needs.
Also keep an eye out for the great series on Democratic House Candidates by Adam T

(Cross posted at Daily Kos, MyDD and Open Left)

Well for starters I think we can safely assume that we will field candidates in all 258 of the Districts that we currently hold including the newest addition to our held list NY-23!!!

So onto the Republican held districts:
90 GOP held Districts have confirmed Democratic Party candidates. This includes 83 in states where candidate filing is still open:
AL-03 (Rogers) - R+9,
AK-AL (Young) - R+13,
AZ-03 (Shadegg) - R+9,
AZ-06 (Flake) - R+15,
AR-03 (Boozman) - R+16,
CA-03 (Lundgren) - R+6,
CA-19 (Radanovich) - R+9,
CA-24 (Gallegly) - R+4,
CA-25 (McKeon) - R+6,
CA-26 (Dreier) - R+3,
CA-41 (Lewis) - R+10,
CA-42 (Miller) - R+10,
CA-44 (Calvert) - R+6,
CA-45 (Bono Mack) - R+3,
CA-48 (Campbell) - R+6,
CA-50 (Bilbray) - R+3,
C0-06 (Coffman) - R+8,
DE-AL (Castle) - D+7,
FL-01 (Miller) - R+21,
FL-05 (Brown-Waite) - R+9,
FL-06 (Stearns) - R+10,
FL-07 (Mica) - R+7,
FL-10 (Young) - R+1,
FL-12 (Putnam OPEN) - R+6,
FL-13 (Buchanan) - R+6,
FL-14 (Mack) - R+11,
FL-15 (Posey) - R+6,
FL-16 (Rooney) - R+5,
FL-21 (Diaz-Balart) - R+5,
FL-25 (Diaz-Balart) - R+5,
GA-10 (Broun) - R+15,
IN-03 (Souder) - R+14,
IN-05 (Burton) - R+17,
IA-04 (Latham) - R+0,
IA-05 (King) - R+9,
KS-01 (Moran OPEN) - R+23,
KS-02 (Jenkins) - R+9,
KS-04 (Tiahrt) - R+14,
KY-04 (Davis) - R+14,
KY-05 (Rogers) - R+15,
LA-02 (Cao) - D+25,
MD-06 (Bartlett) - R+13,
MI-02 (Hoekstra OPEN) - R+7,
MI-11 (McCotter) - R+0,
MN-02 (Kline) - R+4,
MN-03 (Paulsen) - R+0,
MN-06 (Bachmann) - R+7,
MS-03 (Harper) - R+15,
MO-08 (Emerson) - R+17,
MT-AL (Rehberg) - R+7,
NE-01 (Fortenberry) - R+11,
NE-02 (Terry) - R+6,
NE-03 (Smith) - R+24,
NV-02 (Heller) - R+5,
NC-09 (Myrick) - R+11,
NC-10 (McHenry) - R+17,
OH-02 (Schmidt) - R+13,
OH-12 (Tiberi) - D+1,
OH-14 (LaTourette) - R+3,
PA-06 (Gerlach) - D+4,
PA-15 (Dent) - D+2,
PA-16 (Pitts) - R+8,
PA-18 (Murphy) - R+6,
PA-19 (Platts) - R+12,
SC-01 (Brown) - R+10,
SC-02 (Wilson) - R+9,
SC-03 (Barrett OPEN) - R+17,
TN-03 (Wamp OPEN) - R+13,
TN-07 (Blackburn) - R+18,
TX-06 (Barton) - R+15,
TX-12 (Granger) - R+16,
TX-19 (Neugebaeur) - R+26,
TX-21 (Smith) - R+14,
TX-22 (Olsen) - R+13,
TX-26 (Burgess) - R+13,
TX-32 (Sessions) - R+8,
VA-01 (Wittman) - R+7,
VA-10 (Wolf) - R+2,
WA-04 (Hastings) - R+13,
WA-08 (Reichert) - D+3,
WV-02 (Capito) - R+8,
WI-01 (Ryan) - R+2,
WI-05 (Sensenbrenner) - R+12,

And there are also 7 GOP held Districts with candidates in states where filing has closed:
IL-06 (Roskam) - R+0,
IL-10 (Kirk) - D+6,
IL-13 (Biggert) - R+1,
IL-15 (Johnson) - R+6,
IL-16 (Manzullo) - R+2,
IL-18 (Schock) - R+6,
IL-19 (Shimkus) - R+9,

3 GOP held Districts have Democratic Party candidates that are considering a run:
NY-03 (King) - R+4,
TX-10 (McCaul) - R+10,
WI-06 (Petri) - R+4,

2 GOP held Districts have rumoured Democratic Party candidates:
FL-18 (Ros-Lehtinen) - R+3,
OK-01 (Sullivan) - R+16,

82 GOP held Districts don't have any Democratic Party candidates:
AL-01 (Bonner) - R+14,
AL-04 (Aderholt) - R+26,
AL-06 (Bachus) - R+29,
AZ-02 (Franks) - R+13,
CA-02 (Herger) - R+11,
CA-04 (McClintock) - R+10,
CA-21 (Nunes) - R+13,
CA-22 (McCarthy) - R+16,
CA-40 (Royce) - R+8,
CA-46 (Rohrabacher) - R+6,
CA-49 (Issa) - R+10,
CA-52 (Hunter) - R+9,
C0-05 (Lamborn) - R+14,
FL-04 (Crenshaw) - R+17,
FL-09 (Bilirakis) - R+6,
GA-01 (Kingston) - R+16,
GA-03 (Westmoreland) - R+19,
GA-06 (Price) - R+19,
GA-07 (Linder) - R+16,
GA-09 (Deal OPEN) - R+28,
GA-11 (Gingrey) - R+20,
ID-02 (Simpson) - R+17,
IN-04 (Buyer) - R+14,
IN-06 (Pence) - R+10,
KY-01 (Whitfield) - R+15,
KY-02 (Guthrie) - R+15,
LA-01 (Scalise) - R+24,
LA-04 (Fleming) - R+11,
LA-05 (Alexander) - R+14,
LA-06 (Cassidy) - R+10,
LA-07 (Boustany) - R+14,
MI-03 (Ehlers) - R+6,
MI-04 (Camp) - R+3,
MI-06 (Upton) - R+0,
MI-08 (Rogers) - R+2,
MI-10 (Miller) - R+5,
MO-02 (Akin) - R+9,
MO-06 (Graves) - R+7,
MO-07 (Blunt OPEN) - R+15,
MO-09 (Luetkemeyer) - R+9,
NJ-02 (LoBiondo) - D+1,
NJ-04 (Smith) - R+6,
NJ-05 (Garrett) - R+7,
NJ-07 (Lance) - R+3,
NJ-11 (Frelinghuysen) - R+7,
NY-26 (Lee) - R+6,
NC-03 (Jones) - R+16,
NC-05 (Foxx) - R+15,
NC-06 (Coble) - R+18,
OH-03 (Turner) - R+5,
OH-04 (Jordan) - R+15,
OH-05 (Latta) - R+9,
OH-07 (Austria) - R+7,
OH-08 (Boehner) - R+11,
OK-03 (Lucas) - R+24,
OK-04 (Cole) - R+18,
OK-05 (Fallin OPEN) - R+13,
OR-02 (Walden) - R+10,
PA-05 (Thompson) - R+9,
PA-09 (Shuster) - R+17,
SC-04 (Inglis) - R+15,
TN-01 (Roe) - R+21,
TN-02 (Duncan) - R+16,
TX-01 (Gohmert) - R+21,
TX-02 (Poe) - R+13,
TX-03 (Johnson) - R+14,
TX-04 (Hall) - R+21,
TX-05 (Hensarling) - R+17,
TX-07 (Culberson) - R+13,
TX-08 (Brady) - R+25,
TX-11 (Conaway) - R+28,
TX-13 (Thornberry) - R+29,
TX-14 (Paul) - R+18,
TX-24 (Marchant) - R+11,
TX-31 (Carter) - R+14,
UT-01 (Bishop) - R+21,
UT-03 (Chaffetz) - R+26,
VA-04 (Forbes) - R+4,
VA-06 (Goodlatte) - R+12,
VA-07 (Cantor) - R+9,
WA-05 (McMorris Rodgers) - R+7,
WY-AL (Lummis) - R+20,

So we now have candidate in 348 House Districts, 3 Districts with candidates considering their options and 2 with rumoured candidates.
In this stage in 2007 we had candidates in about 359 Districts but we do now hold 21 more districts. All things considered not a bad position to be in.

Whilst at this stage there is no real cause for concern vis a vis candidate recruitment, so much more remains to be done.

On the upside we already have a full slate in 23 states - Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont & West Virginia.

We also have only 1 district to fill in 8 states - Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.  

On the other hand however Texas is a problem for us as it has been for the last two cycles with 13 Districts still to fill, and 5 weeks to close of filings (January 4th). So too do we have far too many vancancies in California we do already have candidates in a number of Republican districts here.

And to finish well done to the Illinois Democratic Party who managed to muster a full complement of candidates before filing closed earlier ths month.

Any news, gossip or thoughts in the comments please.