Same thing in Delaware, probably the same cycle, when the Republicans nominated a woman who literally took out an ad to reassure the public that despite what they’d heard, she was not a witch - another seat that would have been pretty well assured the ‘pubs lost.....
Yes 2012 was a very strange year for your candidates behavior.....not surprising they all lost as they really should have. 2018 seems to be a better group of candidates at least so far....of course that could change on a dime.