More embarrassing landslide loss of a race that should have been an easy win?

[Bojack Horseman]

I’d say Michael Grimm being re-elected after being convicted of fraud in 2014.

[Figueira]

Massachusetts is Massachusetts — it will always elected Republican governors to serve as a defense mechanism against the worst instincts of its overwhelmingly Democratic legislature, especially when they’re as popular and non-controversial as Baker.

There is no way a state as right-wing as Arkansas should’ve been sending a Democrat to the Senate (which is more partisan than the governor’s mansion) in 2010.

What? This is about the governor's races in both states.

Also while you're right about Massachusetts, I wouldn't necessarily bet on it continuing that far into the future, considering the direction the MAGOP is headed in.

[Lechasseur]

Neither because both of those races were safe for the incumbent

[Libertas Vel Mors]

Neither because both of those races were safe for the incumbent

[Skye]

Neither because both of those races were safe for the incumbent

[Indy Texas]

What is really embarrassing is that after being given an incredibly lucky gift in maintaining their trifecta after the 2010 elections, Arkansas Democrats proceeded to pass some of the dumbest redistricting maps possible and guaranteed their annihilation in the next election.

Instead of taking prevailing macro political trends into account and shoring up seats they could hold in predominantly black areas and major cities, they tried to protect as many white rural incumbents as possible and ended up with nothing to show for it.

If they had been smart, Arkansas would have a 3-1 R US House delegation right now. Instead, it has a 4-0 R delegation.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Neither because both of those races were safe for the incumbent

I would consider Edward King's upset of Michael Dukakis in the 1978 Democratic Primary for Governor as the best example of this:

1978 Massachusetts Democratic gubernatorial primary [3] Party   Candidate   Votes   % Democratic   Edward J. King   442,174   51.07% Democratic   Michael S. Dukakis   365,417   42.20% Democratic   Barbara Ackermann   58,220   6.72% Write-in   All others   48   0.01%

King was a conservative Democrat, pro-life, and conservative on a number of issues, who was not Kennedy-friendly.  He pretty much sat out the 1980 Presidential election, and switched to the GOP In 1984 and endorsed Reagan after being ousted in his 1982 rematch with Dukakis.  His victory was stunning.  That Dukakis came back from this to be a Presidential nominee is a forgotten comeback story.  I cannot think of a single nominee of either political party who came back from losing his party's nomination as an incumbent that subsequently won a major party's nomination for President.

[LoneStarDem]

KBH in her disastrous campaign for TX Governor's Mansion in 2010.

Perry kicked her expletive BIGLY.

Some people thought her chance was in 2006.

[free my dawg]

NH-SOS 2018 (definitely not landslide, but a massive embarrassment).

Turns out planning the coronation of your nominee against a guy that transcends partisanship doesn't work well.

Turns out a coronation doesn't work when you need the 7 votes of the third candidate, who continued his run because you tried to buy the office, to win.

It especially doesn't work well when he was the only high-profile Democrat to lose in 2016.

Unsurprisingly, Gardner has decided to continue shilling for Republicans.

[Ilhan Apologist]

Neither because both of those races were safe for the incumbent

[LoneStarDem]

What is really embarrassing is that after being given an incredibly lucky gift in maintaining their trifecta after the 2010 elections, Arkansas Democrats proceeded to pass some of the dumbest redistricting maps possible and guaranteed their annihilation in the next election.

Instead of taking prevailing macro political trends into account and shoring up seats they could hold in predominantly black areas and major cities, they tried to protect as many white rural incumbents as possible and ended up with nothing to show for it.

If they had been smart, Arkansas would have a 3-1 R US House delegation right now. Instead, it has a 4-0 R delegation.

The AR Dems were really STUPID weren't they ?

[Anti-Bothsidesism]

Neither because both of those races were safe for the incumbent

[LoneStarDem]

Then-CA State Treasurer Kathleen Brown (D) was leading in the polls against then-CA Governor Pete Wilson (R) during the 1994 elections, before Wilson's violent race-baiting against illegal immigration & affirmative action (which got eliminated in 1996 Prop 209) resulted in Wilson's landslide reelection.

[Free Bird]

Neither because both of those races were safe for the incumbent

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Neither because both of those races were safe for the incumbent