From Omaha.com:

Democrat Tom Miller has served 28 years as Iowa attorney general. Re-elected by wide margins, he didn’t even have an opponent in 2006.

This year is different.

An aggressive, energetic and well-financed campaign by Republican challenger Brenna Findley, a former aide to western Iowa’s U.S. Rep. Steve King, has turned the race into what is now considered a toss-up.

Stefan Schmidt, a political science professor at Iowa State University, said he would have scoffed if someone told him in January that Miller was in political trouble.

“I would have started laughing and said, ‘Are you on crack?’” Schmidt said.

But now, “I’m predicting that there is a good chance (Findley) will win by a very narrow margin.”

Miller disagrees with such assessments.

“We’re always prepared for a race, and we knew this would be a difficult year,” he said. “We don’t agree with the pundits that it’s a toss-up race. We feel that I have a lead and we will continue to maintain that lead

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