The Democrats' potential clean sweep of those Southwestern US Senate seats marks another advance in a tectonic remaking of the electoral battlefield. Democrats last held all eight of these states' Senate seats during the Depression. In the past three elections, Democrats have won New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado each time. In Nevada, Las Vegas similarly provided two-thirds of the state's votes in 2016 and nearly three-fourths of its jobs and economic output. Only New Mexico departs from this pattern, with Albuquerque, its largest city, accounting for only about one-third of the state's votes.

Source: CNN May 26, 2020 04:07 UTC