laugh out loud for mitch mcconnell to even trying to spin this as a positive, but also to think politico.com to being the totally credulous stenographer for whatever it was that mitch mcconnell wanted them to report, no matter how ridiculous it was on their face. gamely spinni inning kentucky a it was a big win for republicans and mitch mcconnell as they lost all state-wide races except ag commissioner. yeah, right, politico, that ll do. one perhaps unremarked upon feature from last night s election results that the there were really big margins in a lot of the races that were expected to be hard-fought. that iowa state senate race wasn t close. the democrat won there by 12 points. in maine where voters citizen vetoed a voting laws, by reinstating same-day voter registration, the margin was 20 points. the mississippi personhood amendment not only lost but lost by 16 points. more on that coming up in a