I agree about California and this is the only part of the “analysis” in this article that is valid in my eyes. The money spent on Fiorina could have been spent elsewhere where it might have made more of a difference. That being said, the duo of Sharron Angle and Ken Buck both lost winnable races because they were bad candidates. Period. Each of them made an array of gaffes, unforced errors, and questionable decisions. Their opponents were able to use these mistakes to turn the races into a choice instead of what it should have been, namely a referendum on Obama and how the Dems had been operating in Washington.
We’re not discussing Rossi, who it sounds like came within a knife edge and the money would have made a difference.