It was an uncontested race a turd party NAZI put his name into.
Democrat was always going to win the seat but his entry shenanigans gave the press national headlines.
I think it's safe to say the MSM beat us this year.
Take the issue of illegal immigrant families being split. We all know that tens of thousands of families were split under Obama as a result of the same policies, never mind the hundreds of thousands that have been split as a result of the high incarceration rates in Democrat run cities. None of that stopped the MSM from successfully making us own the issue.
I could name others. "I'll have more flexibility after the election" and uranium-gate. Blacks being murdered in Democrat run cities. The list goes on and on of issues that we should have made the Democrats own, but the MSM succeeded in making us own them instead.
I know it feels good to look at Rather-gate as an example of what we can accomplish, but that was 14 years ago. We need to find ways to counter the MSM's saturation of leftist viewpoints as it stands today.
IMHO