When the Senate races in AZ and Indiana are competitive, you know something big is going on.

[cali]

Could dems win the Arizona Senate race? It's looking increasingly possible.

A GOP Senate Is Slip-Sliding Away: Countdown Day 40

WASHINGTON -- You couldn't make up the impressive biography of Richard Carmona of Tucson, Ariz. Hollywood would never buy it. But Carmona is real -- and one reason why Republicans are losing what once looked like a good shot at retaking the U.S. Senate.

Carmona is a 62-year-old former Army officer of Puerto Rican descent, trauma doctor, SWAT team leader and U.S. surgeon general appointed by President George W. Bush. He was a political independent until a year ago, when he became a Democrat to compete for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Jon Kyl.

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What has happened to diminish Republican expectations?

For one, by common agreement, the Democrats recruited better candidates. Even Rove has admitted as much. And the Democrats, running scared, have tailored their own defenses in what they initially worried could be a wipeout kind of year.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-fineman/gop-senate_b_1920989.html?utm_hp_ref=politics


INDIANAPOLIS — A new poll of Indiana’s likely voters finds Republican Richard Mourdock and Democrat Joe Donnelly remain locked in a tight race to be the state’s next senator, while Republican candidates are leading in the presidential and governor’s races.

A Howey/Depauw Indiana Battleground Poll released Thursday shows Donnelly leading Mourdock 40 percent to 38 percent — but that’s well within the poll’s margin of error.

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http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120927/NEWS02/309270046/Richard-Mourdoch-Joe-Donnelly-dead-heat-Indiana-Senate-race-poll-shows?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Home

I think we're going to hold the Senate and it's possible we'll pick up a seat or two.

[LakeErieLiberal]

1. So awesome

Two great democratic candidates. Now if only they can pull it out. Mourdock losing after they through out Lugar, a life long conservative, would break the back of the Tea Party.