About 100,000 KY voters did just that. They voted GOP for everyone but Bevin. Bevin lost by being a moron.
He was the perfect “Conservative Inc” candidate. He forgot all about his job to represent the voters and decided instead to impose his “Conservative” dogmas on them instead. Predictably, as voters usually do when a “Conservative” attempts to rule, rather then govern, they fired him for it.
Both “Conservative Inc” and the Libertine party have the same fatal flaw. They keep thinking they can impose their ideological dogmas on the voters. No, ultimately voters hold the trump cards. You have to lead them to your political position, you cannot simply impose it.
Who lost? I'd say the voters who will live under a RAT governor.