Remember the old adage, you lose by 1, lose by a million. You're still a loser.
It’s really impressive that conservative voters were astute enough to catch wind of this and show up in large numbers as well. A race like this is normally a “quiet” race with light turnout, so if one side or the other gets mobilized and has strong backing (like the unions were in getting angry / fired up) it could potentially overwhelm the other side that gets caught napping. That didn’t happen...enough conservatives showed up to off set them. That’s good...indicates our side is still very motivated and paying attention and hasn’t fatigued. And of course, nice that the liberal groups wasted all of their money on a losing cause that they won’t have to spend again.