Well, NM, CO & VA all have one thing in common... their Senators are execrable across the board. Still, we would be remiss to give any of said incumbents a pass. The thing is to tie Mark Udall to the anti-gun extremists in the state (ditto Hickenlooper, who is also up for reelection).
The GOP blew premier opportunities in 2010 in CO by putting up weak or terrible & untested candidates. Both the Senate & Gov candidates should’ve been bounced. I suggested bringing in highly popular elder statesmen like Bill Armstrong & Hank Brown to run in their places, as both would’ve easily prevailed. Even Jane Norton would not have blown the race like Buck did for the Senate against a nobody Dem placeholder. Inexcusable.
A good test will be if those recall elections are successful. If they are, the Dems are in big trouble, and only a repeat of GOP incompetence could save them.
As for VA, the Warner-McDonnell showdown has been expected from the time the latter won the Governorship. What’s happened to VA politically is that the state’s proximity to DC has seen NoVA turn a bright shade of Communist Red (sorry, kids, I don’t use the newspeak colors - blue is GOP, not Dem). 20 or so years ago, those suburban counties were reliably Republican (and had been since they turned out old-line Segregationist Dems like Howard Smith in the ‘60s). But with the rise of the overpaid and overperked big gubmint workers, those taxpayer funded millionaires are voting for their bennies, not for what’s right. I know, since I have relatives there and the one highly-paid fella doesn’t want the gravy train to end.
Yes, Virginia is definitely changing, with lots of “1%er” DemonRat types. It’s almost the anti-Louisiana, where the hurricane emptied the population of poor minority voters who propped up Landrieu.
You’re right, that we shouldn’t pass on any chances. We’ll need backup states in case one of our easy ones implodes unexpectedly. The nutjobs in Colorado have destroyed that state within months, and if the recall movement pans out, the rats will know their ship is sinking. If only Kalifornians would wake up to their own torture under liberals.