[TontoKowalski]

I think, particularly in Florida and Ohio, there may be "reciprocal" coattails. Where Trump is lifting the Senate candidates among some voters, and the Senate candidates are lifting Trump among other voters.

I am hoping the same happens in NH. Ayotte isn't my favorite Senator, to be sure, but if a strong performance by her helps Trump... I'm not going to throw it away.

Kirk in Illinois was a lost cause from the get-go, and it has nothing to do with Trump. He won that seat in an off-year election in a Republican wave. He was endangered from the instant he won.

[ExNewsExSpook]

Any money the Republican Senate Campaign Committee has earmarked for Kirk should be pulled and reallocated. Ron Johnson in Wisconsin is now neck-and-neck with Feingold, and Joe Heck can seal the deal in Nevada. Ayotte is also surging ahead in NH. Meanwhile, Mark Kirk is toast, and anyone with half a political brain knows it. Better to spend the money on winnable races. Kirk can join the rest of the GOP-E on that long march to political oblivion after the election.