What This Summer Meant for the Midterms – NationalJournal.com

One question has become more pressing as Election Day nears: Where is the Republican wave? For Democrats, the good news is that there doesn’t appear to be an overwhelming Republican tide this year; the bad news is that Democrats could well lose the Senate even without such a wave. Six of the most competitive races are Democratic-held seats in states that Mitt Romney carried by 14 points or more. With a map like that, Republicans don’t need to dominate the country; they just have to win some select states.

While the two vulnerable Republican seats, in Kentucky and Georgia, remain so, the GOP has pulled out front, as we suspected back in the spring.

In Georgia, where Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss stepped aside and created an open seat, his wannabe GOP successor, former Reebok and Dollar General CEO David Perdue, appears to be edging ever so slightly ahead of Democrat Michelle Nunn, the former head of the Points of Light Foundation and daughter of former Sen. Sam Nunn. Like Virginia and, to a lesser extent, North Carolina, Georgia is becoming less of a GOP lock thanks largely to demographic changes, but it has a way to go before it becomes a purple state.

via What This Summer Meant for the Midterms – NationalJournal.com.