Four out of every five House members who didn't side with their party on the health care bill represent districts that voted for the opposite party's presidential nominee in the 2008 election.

The party-buckers on the 220-215 vote on Saturday night included 39 Democrats who voted against the bill. Of them, 31 represent districts that voted for John McCain over Barack Obama. Republicans are targeting many of them for defeat in the 2010 election. Of the other eight, three are serving their first terms in districts in which they defeated or succeeded Republicans in the 2008 election.

Eighteen Democrats from McCain-voting districts backed the bill. Among this subset, seven-term Rep. Marion Berry of Arkansas represents the most pro-McCain district (59 percent). He's more politically secure than other "McCain Democrats" who voted for the bill, including first-term Rep. Tom Perriello of Virginia and second-term Rep. Zack Space of Ohio.

The left wing of congressional Democrats now has a political action committee to provide campaign funds to its members and like-minded candidates who will face competitive races in the 2010 elections.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC was established with the Federal Election Commission as "a vehicle for supporting the members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and candidates who believe that, if elected, they'll become members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus," said Darcy Burner, who sits on the new PAC's board and works with the 83-member organization in her capacity as executive director of the American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation.

In her competitive but losing campaigns in 2006 and 2008 to unseat Republican Rep. Dave Reichert of Washington state, Burner said she noticed there were fundraising vehicles available to Democratic candidates who promised to join the more conservative Blue Dog Coalition or New Democrat Coalition. (The Blue Dog PAC raised $2.6 million in the 2008 election cycle).

The prospect of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani running for New York governor in 2010 has some GOP congressional candidates sounding giddy.

Republican Assemblyman Greg Ball told CQ Politics he was "jumping for joy" at the idea of a Giuliani campaign, which is starting to look like a genuine possibility, according to a New York Times story published Tuesday. The Times reports that Giuliani "has told associates that he will decide on a candidacy within 30 to 60 days, as he weighs whether he can be elected statewide."

"If Rudy Giuliani has coattails it would be in Hudson Valley where he polls extremely well," said Ball, who is challenging second-term Democrat John Hall for the 19th District seat. Ball noted that his district is home to "a lot of New York City cops and firemen" who are a natural constituency for Giuliani.

New York Rep. Eric Massa sought Tuesday to tamp down the furor growing over a Web video of him making the Internet rounds, in which he says he would "vote against the interests of his district if I actually think what I'm doing is going to help them." And he tried to use the exchange to play up what has been a recurring theme of his current term in Congress and likely his 2010 campaign -- his political independence.

The video, which was shot at Netroots Nation a conference for liberal activists in Pittsburgh over the weekend, was first posted on the Washington Times Web site Monday. In it, the freshman Democrat is recorded telling a small group of attendees that he supported a single-payer system for health care and would vote for health care legislation that included it even if it was opposed by the majority of his district.

Conservatives caught hold of the video and declared it a sign that Massa was willing to betray his constituents to push a liberal agenda. And they will no doubt try and use it as ammunition in going after the congressman, who represents one of the most conservative districts in New York and is a top Republican target in 2010.

But in a conference call with reporters Tuesday morning, Massa didn't seem to see what all the fuss was about.

Duncan Hunter, a retired Republican who once chaired the Armed Services Committee, has decided that Iraq War veterans are the perfect candidates to revive the Republican Party in 2010.

Hunter -- a Vietnam War vet who briefly sought the 2008 Republican presidential nomination -- is already backing two such candidates as they launch challenges to two of the more junior members of the House Democratic majority: Jesse Kelly, who wants to take on two-term incumbent Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona's 8th District, and Vaughn Ward, whose target in Idaho's 1st District is freshman Democrat Walt Minnick.

Hunter will be attending a series of brunches, receptions and a golf outing in Tucson this weekend with Kelly, who said Hunter is a big attraction in conservative circles in his district in Arizona's southeastern corner. "He did very well in early presidential polls down here," Kelly noted, referring to Hunter's 2008 bid.

During much of his House career, Hunter represented a California district that stretched from San Diego east to the border of Kelly's home state of Arizona, though for the past decade the 52nd District has been confined to San Diego County in California's southwest corner.