These will go Democrat: CO, NH, MN.
How coudl you possibly think that either Franken or Ciresi could possibly beat Coleman?
I'll tell you how: breathless, heady hope. Ciresi would obviously come closer than Big Al, but Coleman is pretty safe. So is Colorado. I wouldn't even be surprised to see Oregon and NH stay red.
When you're on top you really do think that you can do just about anything. That's why Bush was campaigning in Michigan, Hawaii, and New Jersey in 2004. They were deluded into believing that Bush County was swelling so quickly that even those three blue states could hop aboard the Big Red Bandwagon.
Well, fortunes have shifted and now it's the Democrats deluding themselves into thinking that red states like Colorado are vulnerable. I find it amusing. Election Night, the Democrats won't.
Rawlings, the fact that you can't even admit the Colorado race is competitive completely discredits your statements. At this point the Democrats are still riding a relative wave of popularity as compared to the GOP which is in shambles and is continuing to flounder. Things can obviously change in a short period of time as demonstrated by the 2006 election, but to say that Democrats have anything less than an advantage in Colorado, New Hampshire and Minnesota demonstrates a complete disregard for the current political climate. Oregon would be on that list too if the Democratic recruiting efforts weren't doing so poorly there.
