Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,

it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

a guess. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change me a little.

Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

In a midterm season that stands out for its flashy candidates, its hersial walkers and memet auses,

its John Federmans and JD Vances. Consider Colorado.

Colorado is a blue state but it's got an independent streak that gives Republicans a flash of hope.

And if I asked you to name the candidates for Senate there this year, my guess is that you could not do it.

Go ahead, I'll wait.

Alright, alright, I'll help you out. The GOP has nominated a newcomer named Joe O'Day.

He is taking on incumbent Democrat Michael Bennett.

He's been a senator for 12 years and he's inside the Capitol. He's not like, doesn't have a reputation as a nobody.

Like he's a pretty active senator.

Slates Jim Newell, he's going to be our guide to this race.

But back home, you know, some people in Denver are talking to Democrats were saying he's fine.

That was a quote, the very understated quote that really got me. We're fine with Michael Bennett.

That was a political person, a voter?

Yeah, I, you know, what, what is it that you like about Bennett? You know, he's fine.

So I, he's kind of, you know, even back home, he's kind of generic Democrat.

Jim went to Colorado to figure out whether bland might be tipping over into vulnerable.

Democrats have been worrying about this seat openly for a while now.

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