Elwyn Tinklenberg has been added to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Red to Blue list of targeted House races. The DCCC list now includes 63 candidates across the country, including Third Congressional District challenger Ashwin Madia.

“El Tinklenberg has worked hard to make his race competitive, and he’s moving into position to win,” said DCCC chairman Chris Van Hollen in a statement announcing the decision. “With a solid campaign organization and strong momentum in the district, El Tinklenberg has proven that he has what it takes to defeat Rep. Michele Bachmann.”

In 2006 the Red to Blue program helped 56 candidates raise $22.5 million, an average of $404,000 per campaign. Earlier this week the Tinklenberg campaign announced that it had raised just over $1 million at the close of the third quarter — a financial threshold often cited as a crude barometer of whether a challenger has a credible shot at winning. Bachmann has raised more than $2 million.