The incumbent: Lynn Jenkins, who earned some measure of notoriety in 2009 for urging Republicans to find a "great white hope" to fight President Obama's agenda-she later apologized and said that she was only referring to certain "bright lights" in the party, which is not at all a synonym for the phrase she used, but okay!-is calling it quits after a decade in Congress. Mostly white, mostly working-class, pretty flat. The district: Eastern Kansas but not Kansas City: Topeka, Lawrence, and the University of Kansas. In news that will shock you, Faso and friends are blowing on their trusty dog whistles as hard as they can. He's also black, and he once recorded a rap album that criticized capitalism, condemned white supremacy, and used occasional swear words. He's neck-and-neck with Faso in the fundraising battle and has gone hard after his opponent's health-care vote, calling for a public option while stopping short of endorsing Medicare for all. The challenger: Antonio Delgado, a 41-year-old Schenectady native who graduated from nearby Colgate University, earned a Rhodes Scholarship, and then attended Harvard Law School. He's picked up the Trumpiness of late, pitching himself as the antiāMS-13 candidate and claiming that food-stamp recipients are drug dealers who want to sell your kids heroin while you pay for their milk. After his offices were besieged by weekly protests over his support for Paul Ryan's failed attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, perhaps he learned that constituents "don't like it" when you "make everything more expensive for them."
The incumbent: John Faso, one of only a dozen Republicans who voted against the tax-reform bill, citing its outsize projected impact on New Yorkers.
As you might guess based on those two data points, there are a lot of white people. The National Baseball Hall of Fame is here.
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The district: Most of the Hudson Valley, plus the Catskills, an adorable smattering of rolling hills that New Yorkers visit whenever they want to "go to the mountains for a while" but don't feel like leaving the tri-state area.