Whoa! the IDAHO Senate race is competitve?

[brooklynite]

from the Idaho Stateman:

NEW POLL ON SENATE RACE

Idaho's Senate race is getting national attention from the Democratic blog Daily Kos, which is calling the race "shockingly wide open."

A nonpartisan poll by Research 2000 found Republican Lt. Gov. Jim Risch at 42 percent, Democrat Larry LaRocco at 32 percent, conservative independent Rex Rammell at 5 percent and 17 percent undecided. The margin of error was 4.5 percent.

A LaRocco poll in May showed Risch ahead by 15 percent.

A snippet from Daily Kos: "Now LaRocco has a long way to go, but with wealthy ber-wingnut Rex Rammell in the race, (LaRocco) doesn't need to get to 50 percent (which would be a tall order indeed). With essentially two well-funded Republicans in the race, LaRocco appears to have a real chance to slip in with a plurality of the vote."

I've chatted with Schumer a couple of times about the Senate races, and Idaho was never mentioned. Either this is an outlier, or the ground is crumbling under the entire Republican delegation...

[IDemo]

1. Obama Outraises McCain in Idaho

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6564999&mesg_id=6564999

Idaho was actually halfway blue when I moved here. Who knows what effect the Obama coattails may have on the senate race?