should the Republicans give up on VA & NH??

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

They should probably give up on New Hampshire.  And (if I were them) Republicans should definitely not yet give up on Virginia -the best Mark Warner can hope for (against either Davis or Gilmore) is a 55 to 45 victory, given the residual conservatism of the state.  More likely he would win a percentage just slightly short of that. 

So no chance whatsoever of Warner having a Bayh-style Indiana (a somewhat more conservative and Republican state) margin of victory? Of course, Bayh's Senate opponents were somewhat bottom-drawer. Neither Davis or Gilmore fit that description

Dave

Gilmore isn't bottom-drawer? LOL.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Calling Gilmore a high quality candidate would be like calling Bob Taft one if he ran again in Ohio.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The question in VA is who the candidate is. If Davis doesn't run and it ends up being Gilmore or some other such loser, then there's no point in fighting.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The proposition of Republicans "giving up" in NH is ridiculous, as long as Sununu doesn't have somewhere else pressing to be between now and Election Day.

They gave up on Pennsylvania and Ohio last year.