RINO establishment mentality is what handed the seat to the Democrat. It's been doing so for quite awhile now, which is why so many of us now REFUSE to vote anymore for liberal Republicans -- all they do is make Democrat big government liberalism stronger. To vote for a liberal Republican just to keep the seat away from a liberal Democrat is engaging in Einstein's definition of insanity. Some of us have finally figured it out.
And Hoffman went up in the polls. His groupies were cheering his inevitable victory the last couple of days before the election.