Debate: Risch v. Mitchell

Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, in the sole debate of his re-election campaign, ripped Democratic challenger Nels Mitchell as a clone of President Obama and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and suggested he’d actually represent California. Mitchell decried the “shrill partisanship” of today’s Washington, D.C., and said Risch exemplifies it. After the debate, which aired on Boise TV station KTVB, Mitchell said ruefully, “I’m the one that grew up here in Idaho – not Mr. Risch.” Risch, 71, a successful trial attorney, longtime state senator and former Idaho lieutenant governor who served seven months as Idaho governor, is seeking a second six-year term in the U.S. Senate. Born in Wisconsin, he came to Idaho in the 1960s to attend the University of Idaho and built his political and legal career in the state, beginning as a county prosecutor/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.

Question: Can you think of any scenario in which Sen. Risch would lose this race?