Hillary supporters. How come the "disaffected Republican women" didn't elect Grimes, Davis and Nunn?

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13. I don't consider myself a "Hillary supporter" but they lost due to crappy campaigns and states.

Messed up states like Kentucky, Texas and Georgia (I'm not hating on any of you who live in those states!) have a unique climate and the candidates mismanaged their campaigns terribly. While I didn't follow Nunn's campaign as closely, Grimes and Davis both cost themselves the elections by having terrible, awful, very bad campaigns. As a disclosure, I gave to both and wished for more than what was delivered.

Historically, national elections do bring more people to the polls and the results do tend to skew more Democratic. However, those three states you use in your example are not Democratic strongholds, by far!

This is part of the problem with Democrats decrying weak Dems in red states, they don't understand the political climate or the voters in the states in question. Both of which often lead to Democrats either losing, or ones being elected who don't mirror the party platform. That's the reality of politics in the USA. Our system creates these apparently freakish micro climates of political opinions within red states, which sometimes, although less now than in the past, leads to Democrats being elected who don't fit the ideological model of most of us.

The good news is for the most part the Republicans have reclaimed these regions and have a stronger hold on them than they had pre 2010. Which means less ideologically pure Democrats in congress, but also means less chances of the Democrats regaining the house in the near future. It's a classic case of give and take in politics.