On the DSCC’s website is a map of the Senate races this year, and the races that are described as “targeted.”
Oddly, in quite a few states, the DSCC is convinced that there are no Senate races: New Hampshire, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, New York, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Kentucky, Utah, Missouri, North Dakota, North Carolina, South Carolina. (Okay, I guess we can understand why they might want to ignore their candidate in South Carolina.)
South Dakota’s exclusion can be forgiven, as the Democrats failed to find a candidate.
I had to shrink it down to get it to fit on this page, but I think you can see that only two races are described as “targeted,” Florida and Iowa.
In Florida, the Democratic front-runner is polling in the mid-teens in a three way race.
In Iowa, the Democratic candidate is hitting 40 percent on good days.
Even if the map is supposed to focus only on Senate-seat pickup opportunities, one would expect the Democrats to argue they have a shot against incumbents David Vitter of Louisiana and Richard Burr of North Carolina. In the seats of retiring Republicans, you would think they would argue they could pick up New Hampshire, Ohio, Missouri, and Kentucky.
With the DSCC forgetting to tell visitors about a slew of important races, I’m sure the NRSC will tell them, “stay on target.”
UPDATE: Not long after this was posted, the DSCC updated the map.