Harold Meyerson says that among the House districts Democrats are battling to hold are five along the border with Mexico.
Arizona Democrats, and not just those on the border, are particularly embattled in this cycle; they could conceivably lose all but one of their four congressional seats. On the border, veteran member Raul Grijalva, a staunch progressive in a very Latino district, encountered a major backlash when he backed the calls for a boycott of his state after it passed Senate bill 1070, requiring Latinos stopped by the police to have identification papers on them.