Nation watching two House races here

The National Journal ranked the 75 House races worth watching across the nation and two congressmen in Philadelphia's Pennsylvania suburbs are on the radar.

Bucks County's Mike Fitzpatrick's race came in at #39 and Jim Gerlach's race came in at #68.

WHYY's Newsworks caught up with Scott Bland, the editor of National Journal's House Race Hotline:

"He has a challenger -- Kathy Boockvar -- who's been tapped by the Democratic Campaign Committee in Washington as one of its premiere candidates," [National Journal editor Scott] Bland said. "Fitzpatrick has done a fairly good job voting his district in Congress -- he's split off from the Republican majority more often than most."

In the National Journal article, Mr. Bland writes: "Republican state legislators successfully closed off nearly every possible Democratic pickup opportunity with the Keystone State's new congressional map, but they couldn’t offer Fitzpatrick much protection."

As for Mr. Gerlach, Mr. Bland seems to think that redistricting will help. Take a look at Gerlach's district and it is clear that a lot of work went in to crafting this one.