[ilgipper]

Pretty sure Joe was on the ballot, as opposed to this write in campaign. This is pretty much unprecedented in the modern era. It is a shame. The combination of insider power, dumb voters, Democratic crossover, and Joe’s subpar general election campaign.

[keta]

you got it

[Gondring]

Pretty sure Joe was on the ballot, as opposed to this write in campaign. This is pretty much unprecedented in the modern era

Modern era?

Heck, it didn't happen at all until William F. Knowland in 1946 (with the blank ballot) and Strom Thurmond in 1954 (opposed but not on the ballot).

But yeah, since then...nope. :-)

[Clump]

Well the NSCC could have put millions of dollars into Alaska and Colorado instead of blowing it in California.

There is a lot of blame to go around on this one.