Of all the high-profile races on November 2, these are a few that bear special watching:

1) California’s Gubernatorial Race: Last January I predicted Meg Whitman would beat Jerry Brown—in a Mrs. Outside vs. Mr. Inside donnybrook—by 4 points.

I do not now see that happening. She has run a poor campaign, despite pouring $150 million of her own dough into the race.

In a year when the conservatives are jazzed up, she has turned some of them off by fudging her position and trying to play both sides on illegal immigration—and that was before her forced admission of hiring an illegal housekeeper.

She should have spent some money on opposition research on herself two years ago to get ahead of this issue. Instead, she was/still is on the defensive about it.

She has not been able to make the mere idea of the Return of Governor Moonbeam into an issue. Or she has not done it half as well as Louis Burnett in his fantastic new book, Gov. Jerry Brown's Destruction of the California Judiciary—a book every Californian should read before November 2.

If you can’t win when you spend $150 million in a Republican year, then you will never win.

So, in sum, am afraid Jerry Brown will pull this one out.

2) West Virginia Senate race, where the popular Democrat Governor is behind precisely because of Obama, who is very unpopular in coal country. If Republican John Raese can take Robert Byrd’s Senate seat, then that shows just how much of a shift this election is.

3) Connecticut Senate race where a repeated liar—“When I served in combat in Vietnam”–Richard Blumenthal still leads WWE co-founder Linda McMahon, who has poured more than $40 million into this tiny state.

He has no business being a US Senator. Lying about being in a war, when you weren’t, is inexcusable. But the Nutmeg State voters seem not to buy Mrs. McMahon either. Her WWE exploits—sex, violence and steroids—have really hurt her, even more than his lies.

What a mess that race is.

4) The New York State Senate race(s) have the potential to eliminate the NY GOP for the next ten years. Democrat State Senator Malcolm Smith said last spring, “If we (Democrats) win control of the State Senate we will re-district the GOP out of existence.” Well, with this idiotic clown, Carl Paladino, making a mockery of the serious issues threatening the once-great Empire State, other Republicans down the ballot are going to suffer.

5) Finally, Nevada. We simply MUST defeat Harry Reid! This is the single most seminal race of this year. He is the fellow who made all the dirty deals to pass the ObamaCare disaster. If we could throw him out this year it would show that Americans have indeed rejected the left-ward lurch of the Obama Democrats.

Ten days left. Polls will fluctuate. But the tsunami will blow hard on November 2. America is beginning to try to correct the mistakes of 2006 and 2008.