oh no said:
It means there are people who voted Trump but abstained from voting for the R senate candidate. Why handcuff the guy you're voting for because you want big changes in Washington? He can't do jack **** without both chambers of Congress.
When it comes to House and Senate races, incumbents are often hard to beat, even in the best year for the opposition party.
The Republicans actually did better than one would expect by flipping the Senate seats in Ohio and especially Pennsylvania. Montana was a foregone conclusion and WV was an open seat.
A better candidate would have won Arizona, regardless of whether he or she got support from Mitch. Lake simply turned off enough voters to ensure she couldn't win. Mark Lamb would have won the election going away, and without any support from Mitch.
As for Nevada, I have no doubt some people wouldn't vote for Brown because of how he looks. Why? Because as others have said, people are stupid. Whether this was the difference or not, can't say.
As for the House, there are so few competitive races anymore due to gerrymandering. Looks like the GOP will pick up a few seats, but it will be impossible for either party to get a huge majority again unless something on the order of the Great Depression happens.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill