Bennett barely won, and that was during a GOP wave. Gardner managed to pull through, a win is a win.
I don't know, I'm still more impressed by an openly ultra right-wing candidate winning in Iowa by 8% than I am by someone who went out his way to portray himself as a Moderate Hero winning in Colorado by 2%. Just saying.
Because the media was in the tank for Ernst. Granted, they bashed Udall's campaign a lot as well, but he deserved it. Braley deserved it as well, but the truly disgusting part was that every time Ernst revealed that she was just a more charismatic Sharron Angle, the media glossed over it and instead wrote puff pieces about how "folksy" and "likable" she was.
