If you had told me a year ago that Gov. Nathan Deal would essentially be tied at this point in his re-election campaign with an inexperienced Democratic legislator, I would have asked if you were smoking some of that stuff that is now legally on sale in Colorado. If you had said a year ago that a Democrat who had never been a candidate for office before would be running competitively for the Senate seat being vacated by Saxby Chambliss, I would have given you the same skeptical response.