I can't speak for any other states but the Rs in New Mexico are so outnumbered they have almost no power to even field a team much less play hard ball. I have witnessed first hand unethical practices in voter registration here, some clear instances of fraud, and circumstances so unlikely though predictable to believe that it is all on the up and up. The eastern tier of states made up one out of our three federal districts that was conservative and voted mostly R, but the Democrats restructured the districts to remove that power.
So we once were a red state, then purple, now solidly blue. R's don't seem to have the same creativity to play dirty pool as the Democrats do.