2014 US Congressional Election Results

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The Kentucky results are appalling. As an early indicator you couldn't have hoped to see worse.

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WV-2 is still extremely close, hilariously enough.

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Rahall's long and ludicrous (but we'll miss him) career comes to an end. This sounds counterintuitive, but I wonder whether a new candidate might have done better? Rahall was not exactly popular, more the sort of local institution who has his fans but, if you follow me.

WV-2 remains tight, lol.

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And here comes Scott Brown with a bowlful of cold sick...

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With 99% in, Slaughter is ahead... by less than one hundred votes.

And Michael Grimm has been re-elected. LOL

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Chris Van Hollen is narrowly behind...

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Chris Van Hollen is narrowly behind...

The future House Democratic leader? I can't believe he'll lose. If he does, it would be a bigger upset than Cantor. Not going to happen.

Back ahead, but not by much. Wtf is going on there?

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If anyone wishes to find a silver lining to clutch to pathetically, MN-8 is a genuine relief. That was one of the worst moments of 2010.

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Owsley county has always voted Republican; that part of Kentucky is very remote and industrial activity was not dense enough for UMWA organisation to be successful. Its also the sort of place where all young people leave (isn't that exactly what the snobs here usually demand of such people?). If the Democrats were ever to seriously appeal to people there (lol) then maybe they would actually have to offer something, or at least successfully demonstrate why voting Republican is an 'error'. You don't get to do nothing and then go 'BWAHAH LOOK AT THOSE STUPID HICKS VOTING AGAINST THEIR INTERESTS LOL' every two years.

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Owsley County's uninsured rate dropped from 26% to 13% in the last year because of Obamacare.

Yes this is something that could maybe have been worked with, at least as a start (with promises of better to come maybe). I don't think this was the case though, was it? Didn't the Democratic nominee basically allow Mr Turtle to neutralise that point?

In any case the point is never to do something and expect people to be grateful. You need to use what you've done (or promise or whatever) to actively win people over (or keep them depending on the circumstances). I sometimes get the impression that a lot of Democrats these days regard that as uncouth.

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No, it would be about this lopsided even sans gerrymandering. But 2012 would have been much closer. The main effect of gerrymandering is to freeze past victories into the map.

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The Arizona map has a slight partisan effect (why deny what's clearly true?) but is saintly compared to the average. Whinging about it thus lacks dignity.

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Straw?

As in, clutching at it. Louisiana is 30% Black. A convicted paedophile could probably poll 40% as a Democrat in a seriously contested statewide election (but no higher).

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Straw?

As in, clutching at it. Louisiana is 30% Black. A convicted paedophile could probably poll 40% as a Democrat in a seriously contested statewide election (but no higher).

Are you insinuating Charlie Melancon is worse than a convicted pedophile?

I meant it figuratively rather than literally, but I note that the man was a sugarcane lobbyist...

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She ran well ahead of Obama in the Nawlins burbs in 2008 fwiw. Personal vote.