What Could Have Been....

[DownWithTheLeft]

While some states (like NJ) nominated the best challenger, others (FL) did not.  What states could have been vulnerable w/the right candidate?  Here's my opinion, feedback appreciated

AZ:
Gov. Napolitano would have been much better

CA:
Finestein was pretty much guaranteed to win

CT:
Jodi Rell possibly w/the Dems splitting between Lamont and Lieberman

DE:
Pretty unbeatable, possibly Rep. Castle

FL:
Long list basically w/everyone but Katherine Harris

HI:
Maybe Gov. Lingle or Lt. Gov. Aiona

IN:
Lugar was unbeatable considering Evan Bayh is already in the Senate

ME:
Snowe was pretty unbeatable

MD:
Probably nominated the best person

MA:
No one, absolutley no one

MI:
No one comes to mind

MN:
Maybe Gov. Pawlenty would have been better

MS:
Mike Moore could have made it a race

MO:
Probably the best

MT:
The best

NE:
Johanns would have killed him

NV:
Didn't real have a good candidate

NJ:
Absolute best w/the exception of his father

NM:
Unbeatable

NY:
Guilliani is the only one, and he wasn't even considered

ND:
Hoevan would've beaten him

OH:
Strickland was probably better

PA:
Probably the best

RI:
Don't know much about RI

TN:
Probably the best

TX:
Sacrifical lamb was anyone

UT:
Hatch was unstoppable in UT

VT:
Maybe only Douglas would be better

VA:
Webb is a good candidate

WA:
Best candidate

WV:
Capito Moore had a shot

WI:
Tommy Thompson

WY:
Thomas was unbeatable

That's all the races, anyone else?

[minionofmidas]

CT:
Jodi Rell possibly w/the Dems splitting between Lamont and Lieberman

All a strong Republican in that race would have done, in all probability, is throw the election to Lamont.

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The man is a complete Rino. I somehow can't see the Rep donors lining up to make that Senate seat competitive while throwing his House seat to the dems. (After all, a Dem takeover of the Senate was viewed as extremely unlikely/impossible until quite late in election season.)

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Harris was an extremely weak candidate o/c, but in a year as Democratic as this one, barring a major scandal Nelson was safe even against a top tier challenger. He just wouldn't have been able to amass an impressive margin. Rather like Menendez.

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I doubt that. Not that it would have mattered much, though.

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Lots of people would have been better.

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Certainly better than his primary opponent.

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Nobody would have *killed* him, but yeah, a really top tier opponent would have made this race competitive.

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Why?

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Of course he wasn't. Doesn't want to ruin his career by taking on one of the two races in the entire country that he had no chance in.

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Maybe. Probably not. He would have made a race out of it though.

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I don't know much about Sheldon Whitehouse, but from what I know about RI, it hardly mattered as long as it wasn't a complete loon. Chafee basically lost to Generic Democrat rather than to Sheldon Whitehouse. He would have probably won as an Independent.

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No. A white man from the center of the state (and Ford clone on the issues) would have won.

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I forget... who was the Rep candidate there?

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I doubt that.