December 2014 At-Large Senate Election: Winner/Loser

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I think what you can say with absolute certainty, is that this was a disaster for the Federalists and the D-Rs. For those of us in the left/centre-left bloc to pick up 3(1 more to be confirmed)/5 seats... is just inexplicable.... well it can be explained, but it's still weird.

Cris was one of the strongest candidates the right bloc could possibly put up. JCL did get lucky numbers-wise in August, he did get supported by some pretty inexplicable votes toward the end of voting. So those votes dried up and the right's GOTV was underwhelming, he was probably doomed. The D-Rs problem was that they didn't have a candidate until the last few days and he would have been assisted by Senator Deus actually announcing that he wasn't running, to enable Maxwell to be on the ballot and not require write-ins.

Labor regained its strength and got two candidates up in the first round, which, as the largest party, it should have.