I think it was stolen, not rightly given.
That is an easy excuse and the fact of the matter is that our elections have always been exercises in fraud. We have not come from Ivory pure politics.
This should have been a slam-dunk for the GOP, not a wipe-out. It is hard to look at the accomplishments of this administration and the election results and make any real sense of it. Unless you just assume the electorate is nuts and there is a lot of evidence for just that.