We are focused on our incumbents right now. We’re certainly keeping an eye on the challengers, and we’ll do what we can to help support those folks, but no big financial decisions have been made...

This must be the largest capital campaign of its kind, ever.

That’s the thing about being in the majority ? you’ve always got more seats up than the other guy. I feel confident we’ll be able to maintain our numbers.

In 2002, that was a highly contested race, and Charlie won it handily, by nearly 10 points. The registration numbers there are 40 percent Democrat, 31 percent Republican, which is pretty convincing.