Is Udall having problems in the polls? Or is the story just concern-trolling?

This is after all a midterm election and D's are notorious for not voting. The whole gun thing has the GOP riled up in CO and weed isn't on the ballot this time. Not that the weed vote was helpful to D's in November - 58,000 voted against POTUS.

on our Nov ballot here in Michigan.

Sen. Levin's senate seat is up for grabs and the GOP is running a strong, woman candidate with very good name recognition. Our candidate, not so much. Going to be a tough one imo.

we have nothing to worry about. He's got deep pockets in New Mexico and he's been in congress a while for NM. I can't really see the guy losing.

This is about Mark Udall D-CO.

Gardner wouldn't have given up a safe seat unless there was a reason to believe that he could win.

Polling for Udall was troubling before Gardner got in the race (and two people backed out and endorsed him). Udall was leading by a couple points, but drew only 43-45% (a problem for any incumbent).

The bad news is that the Senate is in real trouble if this race comes into play... but the good news is that this is all caught up in the President's awful polling numbers (ACA, etc). If they start to improve at the right time, the race should move back to comparatively safe.

At this point assuming they pick up WV, MT, SD, AR, and LA they've got two paths to a majority through either NC or AK. All of these are Romney states. The fact that they can put Dems on the defensive in Colorado is not good news to what's already shaping up to be an extremely difficult year. If they nominate reasonable people rather than Tea-Nuts in these states (and it looks like they're headed that way in most of them), it's going to be very hard for Dems to hold the Senate.

Personally I am sick and tired of paying about $30,000 (over a decade) to a state gov. on a modest house. You never really 'own' your home or property when republicans like Gardner boast about how much "State Revenue" they generate from YOUR property taxes.

A really good issue, a good bill to D politicians to promote to regular local citizens is to stop property tax on primary family homes after people have paid in for 10 or 20 years. And only restart the tax when the property is sold to another. This would directly benefit the middle class and it sure would be nice to have an extra 3k a year to fix-up the old house.