“Resurgent Republicans captured Democratic seats in Arkansas and West Virginia and bid for control of the U.S. Senate and a tighter grip on the House Tuesday in elections shaped by deep voter discontent with President Barack Obama.
The party’s leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell, dispatched Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky after a $78 million campaign of unrelieved negativity.
Two-term Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas was the first Democratic incumbent to fall, defeated by freshman Rep. Tom Cotton. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito was the GOP winner for a Senate seat in West Virginia, the first of her party to make that claim since 1956.
Republicans also reached out for relatively easy pickings among Senate seats held by Democrats in South Dakota and Montana.””* Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Ben Mankiewicz, Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show) and RJ Eskow break it down on The Young Turks.
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They lost by design. There was never any question. Any resistance was merely for show.
RJ Eskow gives us one of the best moments on TYT. Classic clip.