Any chance for pickup by unseating Dingy Harry in NV and Dorgan in ND?
Dingy is quite vulnerable. Dorgan is unknown and the seat will rely on the quality of opposition.
Harry “Negro-Free Senate” Reid is already having charges trumped up against his main potential GOP candidate in 2010, Brian Krolicki, the Lt Governor. I’m thinking it may be better to run Congressman Dean Heller against him, the only Republican to survive this past Novermber in a NV federal race.
North Dakota is more problematic. The GOP hasn’t run a first-tier candidate for office there in decades. We last won a Senate seat there in 1980 (and House seat in 1978, both with the same person). Dorgan and Conrad have been in continuous office for 40 years and 28 years respectively (and Conrad was Dorgan’s assistant for 7 years before that). We dominate the state offices, but NONE of them have stepped forward to run. Both the Dakotas should have an all-GOP delegation, but haven’t since 1955 (!).