National GOP woes and internecine sniping within state Republican parties is spreading in the Mountain West, giving Democrats chances to win in states such as Idaho, Colorado and Nevada that favored Republicans in the past, writes Joan McCarter in Diary of a Mad Voter. For instance, in Colorado the state's Right to Life committee is picking a major fight with their state party chair Dick Wadhams.
Here is a bloggingheads.tv video link to McCarter, a contributing editor with Daily Kos, discussing in April the influence of the Netroots on the Democratic Party.