To counter the stark reality, in 2010, Hamet Watt and PaulCampbell co-founded Los Angeles-based startup bLife focused on helping Americans to live their best lives.
The group - foreign affairs and defence spokesman Menzies Campbell, chief whip Paul Tyler, campaigns chief Nick Harvey and social security select committee chairman Archy Kirkwood - are expected to back the same candidate.
And GOP incumbents in Georgia (Paul Coverdell) and Colorado (party-switcher Ben Nighthorse Campbell) are worth watching, though their opponents are less than intimidating.