Craziest results of this election

[Nichlemn]

When was the last time an election had as many shockers? Like 2010 was a big Republican win, but there weren't any really crazy results where they way outperformed the polls and expectations.

NY-24: Maffei losing by 20 in a D+5 district???
MD-Gov: The Republican winning... by 6 points?
VA-Sen: Warner appears to barely scraped by, when the last polls had him up by 9 and previous polls had him up by double digits.

[Sol]

Delaney losing is also pretty shocking.

[IceSpear]

Delaney losing is also pretty shocking.

Delaney hasn't lost yet, I think.

[Boston Bread]

Landrieu, Pryor, Grimes, Tennant are all good candidates who only marginally outperformed Obama. Nothing seems to work for red state democrats anymore.

[ProudModerate2]

The Dems will hold on to the Virginia Senate seat (close race!).

If you ignore the disparity in some states, regarding how close the elections should have been (according to poll data), and only look at who won and lost (Dem or Rep), then most websites had it about right. Everything that happened tonight was in the window of possibility.

With one exception ..... North Carolina. Most websites were leaning for this state to go to the Dems.
And if Alaska goes Democratic, then that will be the only other exception. (Most websites are leaning for this state to go to the Reps. We will soon find out.)

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Landrieu, Pryor, Grimes, Tennant are all good candidates who only marginally outperformed Obama. Nothing seems to work for red state democrats anymore.

Maffei has shown that Blue Dogs can run quite a bit behind real Democrats. It's time to ditch the Blue Dog losers, bring back Howard Dean, and rebuild the party from the ground up.

[Sol]

Landrieu, Pryor, Grimes, Tennant are all good candidates who only marginally outperformed Obama. Nothing seems to work for red state democrats anymore.

Maffei has shown that Blue Dogs can run quite a bit behind real Democrats. It's time to ditch the Blue Dog losers, bring back Howard Dean, and rebuild the party from the ground up.

Exactly. We need a Democratic Tea Party.

[Lief 🗽]

Mark Warner, definitely. That was ridiculous.

[Boston Bread]

The governorships are the most depressing part. Despite under performing in the senate, only one seat was lost that most did not predict. But in the governorships a year that was supposed to be a reset from 2010 turned into some more losses.

[publicunofficial]

-Delaney (possibly) losing
-Hogan winning
-Costa (possibly) losing
-Neither Georgia race going to run-off
-Barrow losing
-Gillespimentum


If you had asked me a few months ago, Paul LePage, Rick Scott, and Michael Grimm all winning would also be a shock.

[ElectionsGuy]

AR:

Cotton - 56.6
Pryor - 39.5

I can say with confidence, that Pryor got Blanched.

KS:

Roberts - 53.2
Orman - 42.6

Who would've predicted a 10.6% win??

NV-4:

Looks like Hardy will defeat Horsford. The district is D+3

TX-23:

Hurd defeating Gallego 50-48.

UT-4:

Love only defeating Owens 50-47!!

WV-3:

Rahall losing by 10 points

MD-6:

Bongino defeating Delaney 50-48? (not officially called yet)

NY-24:

Holy sh!t

MD-Gov:

A 62% Obama state voting Republican by 6. Yes, this should shock us all

IL-Gov:

Goodbye, Pat Quinn!!

KS-Gov:

Brownback surviving!!

[KCDem]

Mark Warner and Maffei's 20-point loss

[Nichlemn]

Delaney losing is also pretty shocking.

Isn't Delaney's district only about D+3? Roscoe Bartlett just sucked last time.

[Devils30]

Isn't it strange how it seems more D+3-5 seats flipped such as IA-1, NY-24, IL-10, ME-2, possibly NV-4 while Dems held or gained the even PVI or R+ narrow ones like FL-2, FL-18, MN-8 and possibly AZ-1,2.

[IceSpear]

Delaney is now ahead 50-49 with 97% in.

[Boston Bread]

Also I can't believe how Americans can forgive the GOP's fumbles and poor governance but not that of the democrats. Turnout also wasn't better in 2014 so this is what became of the electorate.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Landrieu, Pryor, Grimes, Tennant are all good candidates who only marginally outperformed Obama. Nothing seems to work for red state democrats anymore.

Maffei has shown that Blue Dogs can run quite a bit behind real Democrats. It's time to ditch the Blue Dog losers, bring back Howard Dean, and rebuild the party from the ground up.

Exactly. We need a Democratic Tea Party.

This.

I'm willing to rejoin the Democrats if they let us clean up their party.

[Boston Bread]

It turns out Tennant did worse than Obama! 62-34 vs 62-36. I concede race isn't the reason.

[Liberalrocks]

Mark Warner, definitely. That was ridiculous.

[GMantis]

When was the last time an election had as many shockers? Like 2010 was a big Republican win, but there weren't any really crazy results where they way outperformed the polls and expectations.

NY-24: Maffei losing by 20 in a D+5 district???
MD-Gov: The Republican winning... by 6 points?
VA-Sen: Warner appears to barely scraped by, when the last polls had him up by 9 and previous polls had him up by double digits.

This poll predicted a much better results for Sarvis that actually happened; the polls which predicted a lower result for him gave a more accurate margin between Warner and Gillespie.

[Ljube]

Landrieu, Pryor, Grimes, Tennant are all good candidates who only marginally outperformed Obama. Nothing seems to work for red state democrats anymore.

Maffei has shown that Blue Dogs can run quite a bit behind real Democrats. It's time to ditch the Blue Dog losers, bring back Howard Dean, and rebuild the party from the ground up.

Exactly. We need a Democratic Tea Party.

This.

I'm willing to rejoin the Democrats if they let us clean up their party.

LOL! They don't need you! They take your vote for granted!

[morgieb]

Republicans winning Maryland and pushing Shumlin in Vermont under 50%. I mean, WTF?

[RR1997]

Governor: Republican victories in Maryland and Illinois. Shumlin, Foley, and Hickenlooper all ahead so far by very tiny margins (their leads could even vanish once all the votes come in). Scott victory in FL.

Senate: Virgina too close to call. NH closer than expected. GOP victory in NC.

[morgieb]

Also:

Maffei getting Blanched.
Warner winning by less than Obama (and probably Kaine) did.
NV-04, TX-23 and GA-12 flipping, and MD-06, Jim Costa's and Louise Slaughter's district being extremely narrow.
Tennant underperforming Obama.
Pryor getting Blanched.
Roberts winning rather easily, and Brownback hanging on. Congrats, Phil.
Perdue and Deal avoiding run-offs.
Rauner winning fairly comfortably - IIRC Quinn was restricted to Cook.

[Talleyrand]

In New York's 25th, Louise Slaughter is only ahead by about 500 votes, or 50.2% of the vote.