Who ran the worst Senate campaign in 2016?

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Strickland, Bayh and Feingold. The new Charlie Christs.

Um no Charlie Christ is a newly elected Congressmen!

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Probably Strickland. He was a two-stint congressman and a Governor and he lost by 21% points. He let Portman attack him and didn't counter Portman's attack ads at all. Portman did probably did run the best campaign out of any US Senate Candidate though this cycle. He was "on the ground" a lot courting voters I think.

Bayh lost because he was a lobbyist and people don't want to vote in former lobbyists this cycle. They were angry at Washington DC just like they were in 2010 and wanted to send "the political class" a message. 

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Probably Strickland. He was a two-stint congressman and a Governor and he lost by 21% points. He let Portman attack him and didn't counter Portman's attack ads at all. Portman did probably did run the best campaign out of any US Senate Candidate though this cycle. He was "on the ground" a lot courting voters I think.

Bayh lost because he was a lobbyist and people don't want to vote in former lobbyists this cycle. They were angry at Washington DC just like they were in 2010 and wanted to send "the political class" a message. 

Bayh was also an establishment candidate, and he seemed to be out of touch with IN; people perhaps didn't see him as one of their own anymore.

That IS what did Lugar in.

Well Coats won in 2010 and he was a lobbyist after he retired from the US Senate in 1998.

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What was so bad about Rand Paul's campaign? That he ran 5 points behind Trump?

I cast a wide net - Rand ran pretty far behind The Donald this year and pretty close to his 2010 result, despite being in the Senate for a full term and getting an opponent who nobody really gave a shot.

It's pretty normal for a local Kentucky Republican to run behind a national Republican, no?

Basically a KY Dem US Senate Candidate is like an NJ Republican US Senate Candidate in that both generic US Senate Candidates from both states can get 45% of the vote. They just can't get over 45% of the vote!