You're skipping the point that there are just as many (if not more) swing 'Rat states, such as PA, MN, NM, WI, etc. You battle those out as available.
In doing so, you passed right by my point of stopping spending precious resources trying to defend obvious Blue states when there are obvious Red state seats just waiting to be captured.
Keeping the national GOP the hell out of primaries altogether would be another postive step - which they also will not do.
You meant to say "Keeping the national GOP the hell out of primaries THAT I WANT THEM TO STAY OUT OF would be another postive step "
Frankly more than a few freepers are saying "stay out of the primaries" and also saying "why the hell did the national gop not intervene in florida and get Harris out and another credible candidate in.
HYPOCRISY REIGNS EVEN FOR FR.
fyi, NM was red in 2004 and we have 1 senator there and we are battling in PA with santorum and specter and in WI where we could pick one up and we could pick up MN too.
Actually if we run the table with pick ups in MD,NJ,MN,WI and WA and hold all of our own, we get to 60. It the dems run the table and hold all their own and pick up RI,OH,MO,TN,PA,Montana, they get to 51.
Neither is likely to happen, but they are both possiblities.