Let me have it.

Webb wasn't even mentioned until Oct or Nov as I remember and only then barely. It was only after a month or so did he pick up steam.

WY:  Garry Trauner is a much more likely candidate than Frudenthal.  Trauner received a considerable amount of blogosphere support in his race against Barbara Cubin.

KY:  AG Greg Stumbo and Charlie Owen are considering bids.  Neither are particularly progressive.

GA:  I'd question Dale Cardwell's so-called "solid progressive credentials."  Sounds more like a right wing loon to me...

NE:  I'd call Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey as a more likely candidate than Kerrey.

NH:  The NH blogosphere has started to coalesce around Portsmouth Mayor Steve Marchand (who'll drop out if Shaheen gets in the race).

Pitting Nebraska as a failure of the netroots is vastly misreading the situation here. Kleeb's 32 years old, he's not going to jump in line ahead of a two-term former Senator and Governor of Nebraska, or a popular Democratic mayor of the state's largest city. That's just politics. Kerrey was a huge supporter of Kleeb in 2006, so let's not pretend they're on different sides, here.

This is the reality of having a short bench. We can't afford to divide into camps in Nebraska. You're not going to convince Nebraska Democrats that Bob Kerrey's bad for Nebraska Democrats. He helped build the party. We've got plenty of reasons to believe he can help rebuild it. And when you don't have the grassroots, you can't even pretend to say anything about the netroots.

Nebraska Democrats would love Bob Kerrey, Mike Fahey, or Scott Kleeb to be our nominee for U.S. Senate.

Like it or not the Presidential races are sucking out money, enthusiasm and concentration on the Senate races.  And the House races.  Making a big deal about Republican obstruction will re-focus things to some extent on the Senate and House races.

It is still sixteen months to election time.  Some of the races like the Kentucky one have preliminaries.  Wait for the fall's governor election to sort things out.  First thiongs first and all that.

Meanwhile, tie the Republicans in to obstruction, Iraq, and support of Bush.    

There is a lot of healthy discussion about the US Senate race on NH site, Blue Hampshire. It would not be accurate to say blogosphere coalescing around Steve Marchand; Buckey, a third announced candidate, leads Marchand on Act Blue; the draft Shaheen committee, which has been up with a web site for less than a week, is second on Act Blue.  Jeanne Shaheen would make a great candidate and a great senator. She signed landmark civil rights and environmental legislation, was elected three times, and is a large part of the reason why NH is a blue state today.  Check out http://www.draftshaheen.com.

And how many of our recruitment efforts had FAILED by this point last cycle?

let you have it. I think you're wrong. Let me explain.

Alabama: Figures isn't in the race yet and there are rumblings that Sparks may yet make the right choice. The question wasn't can Sparks beat Figures for the nomination but it would have been hard to not piss off black voters and Sparks would need black voters. That's why he didn't run.

Alaska: No. We all want Mike Gravel! Just kidding. This has been quite but it's Alaska. Ted Stevens isn't going anywhere anytime soon and Begich is the only at all viable canidate. There just isn't a bench in Alaska.

Colorado: Waste of time. Udall isn't a Blue Dog, just a DLCer. But for Colorado he's pretty progressive. Better then DINO Ken Salzar. It would be a waste of time and resources.

Georgia: Dale is a crazy right winger. He's to the right of Tom Tracadaro on immigration and is in favor of some crazy right wing tax idea. The flat tax I think. There is a strong effort in the GA netroots to draft Wrc Orr. Check it out: http://www.wewantwyc.com/

Idaho: Why would we want to challenge him? Larry has strong netroots support already. Has liveblogged. Coming to YearlyKos. Mcjoan raved about how great he was. He is a netroots guy. Who cares if we didn't recruit him?

Kentucky: We're focused on raised money for whoever wins. The netroots favorite is Charlie Owen though. There is a draft effort at http://draftowen.blogspot.com/

Maine: Allen is a big friend of the netroots and the netroots have been a big friend of him. This is a big success. DSCC loves him and so do we.

Minnesota: Franken ran on his own. Some in the netroots like him but many don't. Mike Ciresi isn't DSCC recruited. They wanted McCollum, Walz or Rybak. I think the netroots will get behind someone else. I'm thinking about starting a Draft Rybak movement actually. I met him today and he was a great guy. Either him or Mpls City Council Member Ralph Remington.

Mississippi: It's Mississippi. Need I say more? Thad isn't going anywhere unless he retires.

Nebraska: Kleeb was not a netroots recruit at all. Some in the netroots liked him but still. Kerry won't run most likely and Mike Fehay is much more recruited by the netroots and DSCC currently.  

New Hampshire: Swett isn't a former congresswomen. I have no idea where you got that idea. And the Netroots has been getting behind Marchand pretty big.

New Mexico: The netroots hasn't done much at all in New Mexico. I think Kelly would be the best choice.

North Carolina: This was a big loss but oh well. Many (like me) want Grier Martin to run and don't be surprised to see a draft effort soon.

Oklahoma: Yep. Andrew is going to run. I'd be pretty surprised if he didn't. He's a real progressive. No chance of winning but oh well.

Oregon: Stuck? Most of the netroots LOVE political VETREN Steve Novick. He's one of us. He has a long uphill way to go but he will win.

South Carolina: Yeah. But The Guru has suggested Robert Barber Jr. and hopefully he'll run.

Tennessee: McWherter would be great. Not much of a bench in TN though. And at least Ford is gone.

Texas: Rick is leaning towards a race. He'll jump in soon. He's the Jim Webb of this cycle. A populist military guy who can win in a red state.

Virginia: Warner also has a lot of netroots support. I'd say by you're terms he would be a joint recruit. Although he won't run unless Warner retires.

Wyoming: Dave isn't running. Period. But this is Wyoming. There is almost no bench if any there. Some random rancher or something will step up. Hopefully.

Basically I think the "netroots" is doing pretty well. Seeing as no one in the netroots knew who James Webb was at this time of the year and Ned Lamont was still a long shot. I'd say we are doing pretty we'll. We've got Allen, Marchand, LaRoco who have netroots support but aren't netroots candidates per say. You've you Rice and Rick in the southwest who are going to run most likely. You've got draft efforts for Owen and Orr. You've got draft efforts on the horizon for Robert Barber Jr. and Grier Martin. You've got Warner who is going to do a lot of netroots outreach and get netroots support.

I think overall we're doing pretty we'll. That's just me though!