Losing so many close House races is both bad news and good news. The bad news, is we lost them. The good news that most of the races we won were not even close.. meaning the GOP will many opportunities to advance in 2014 by taking another stab at the close races that were lost this year.
There has been a lot of cheating in close races and even in not so close; I live in a GOP county in FLorida, but the Dems did everything from voter intimidation (mysterious legal letters) to hacking the database to keep turnout down. That wasn’t because they thought they had a chance in my county, but because they wanted the state to go for the Dems (which it did).
The whole key is to have huge margins that they can’t cheat their way around. Without cheating, we probably would have run...but we didn’t turn out enough voters to have a cheat-proof margin, and the Dems knew that.
We probably would have “won,” that is.