Opposite Party Targets 2013-2018 (SEN and GOV)

[Mr.Phips]

Only quibble: Pubs would target Bennet and Reid in '16, especially if Gardner/Sandoval can be recruited.

If Bennett and Reid couldn't be beaten in a year like 2010, they won't lose in a Presidential year.  Neither of those states are getting any easier for Republicans.

[Mr.Phips]

Only quibble: Pubs would target Bennet and Reid in '16, especially if Gardner/Sandoval can be recruited.

If Bennett and Reid couldn't be beaten in a year like 2010, they won't lose in a Presidential year.  Neither of those states are getting any easier for Republicans.

I get you on Bennet, but Reid faced an awful candidate. If Governor Sandoval runs, I find it hard to believe Reid would win re-election. Other than Sandoval, though, Nevada's bench looks not too great.

Sandoval is probably the only Republican who could win that seat and even then, it would be very close in a Presidential year.

[Mr.Phips]

The R's almost had Reid beat in 1998. He only beat John Ensign by 400 votes that year. Reid being pro-life and pro-gun may have saved him that year. NV was still Moderately Republican back then. It wasn't a battleground state back then.

Yeah, Nevada was more like how Arizona is now back in 1998.