“Before entering the state-wide race, Hickenlooper said he did not think he was “cut out” for the job. The other candidates criticized him for not wanting to embrace “progressive values” out of fear it would reelect President Trump.”

Let’s hope the DSCC listens to them!

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/would-john-hickenlooper-dominate-the-colorado-senate-race/

Short answer: not necessarily. Gardner is popular everywhere outside of Downtown Denver.
I was more interested in this development among the Democrats:
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/politics/6-women-candidates-in-colorados-2020-senate-race-urge-dscc-to-rescind-hickenlooper-endorsement

DENVER – Six of the women vying for the Democratic nomination in Colorado’s 2020 U.S. Senate race sent a letter Monday to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and its leadership urging them to reconsider their early endorsement of John Hickenlooper in the race.

“We are writing today to urge the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to reconsider its early endorsement of former Governor John Hickenlooper. All of us, like many women in Colorado and across the country, have seen well-qualified women passed over for male candidates in the workplace time and again,” wrote Sen. Angela Williams, Alice Madden, Diana Bray, Stephany Rose Spaulding, Lorena Garcia and Michelle Ferrigno Warren to the DSCC, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.

They sent the letter on Monday, which was Women’s Equality Day 2019 in the U.S.

PS Please note that the Democrats champion every possible kind of “equality” except “equality under the law for our operatives in the government.”

I suspect McSally in Arizona is a lost seat.
In Colorado, Cory Gardner is running against popular governor Hickenlooper. There is lots of precedence for Republican Senators losing their seats to a popular former governor, like Jeanne Shaheen took out Kelly Ayotte in 2016.

I think Iowa is safe, as well as Texas, and crucially Maine.
North Carolina should be safe as well.
I worry that in Georgia there are two seats up, and some people might just choose one of each party.

His wife and his doctor were gatekeepers and the pretense was that they were delivering messages from him. The degree to which cabinet secretaries were actually doing what she told them he wanted would require some unusually granular history of the government in that 18 months span of time.

* George Wallace’s wife, Lurleen, was Governor of Alabama for over a year after George Wallace couldn’t run because of term limits. Sadly, she died of cancer. Her husband knew of her diagnosis but didn’t tell her when she ran for office.

It was the usual practice prior to about 1972 that a cancer diagnosis once made was reported to a proximate family member, not the patient directly, and reported to the patient at the discretion of family. No clue why this was done this way, as it required systematic lying and evasion on the part of physicians and surgeons. What was bizarre is that Wallace told members of his staff but not her. It leaked to her three years later and only at that time was a treatment regimen devised for her. She was aware in 1966 she was ill and was under treatment. Wallace persistently lied to the public (and perhaps to himself) about her condition in 1967 and 1968. It’s possible she’d have died anyway, but one has to suspect that she might have survived if treatment had begun earlier.

Supposedly, Lurleen had her own ideas on a couple of issues but otherwise did what he told her to do. She was a vocational housewife and sorely out of place behind the Governor’s chair. Her successor as Governor wasn’t interested in what George Wallace wanted at that point.

What other options?
Which one is more realistic?

I can only believe those who complain about her now are Dem shills, or idiots. She needs our support now.