The missing story of the 2014 election

*It takes a while for the dust to settle after a national election. We tend to want instant feedback, streaming across our many digital screens the moment the polls close. But some of the deep result-parsing takes time, and the more interesting pictures emerge after our attention to Tweets and posts has been exhausted. This is one of those stories. It turns out that this past midterm may not be the GOP victory that many are celebrating. The electoral map numbers tell of a different future. VL

By Chris Ladd, Houston Chronicle

Few things are as dangerous to a long term strategy as a short-term victory. Republicans this week scored the kind of win that sets one up for spectacular, catastrophic failure and no one is talking about it.

What emerges from the numbers is the continuation of a trend that has been in place for almost two decades. Once again, Republicans are disappearing from the competitive landscape at the national level across the most heavily populated sections of the country while intensifying their hold on a declining electoral bloc of aging, white, rural voters. The 2014 election not only continued that doomed pattern, it doubled down on it. As a result, it became apparent from the numbers last week that no Republican candidate has a credible shot at the White House in 2016, and the chance of the GOP holding the Senate for longer than two years is precisely zero.

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[Photo courtesy of The Houston Chronicle]

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