elections, the country woke up to see how its political boundaries shifted after the results rolled in from the night before. for democrats, what they saw wasn t pretty. in kentucky, tea party candidate matt bevin won the governor s seat. in a seat that s been held by democrats for most of the last seven decades. part of the sweep that left republicans holding all but two statewide offices in kentucky. it s given republicans near total dominance over statehouses in the south. in virginia, democrats failed to secure the single seat that would have helped them regain the state s senate. a defeat that will make it harder for democratic governor terry mcauliffe to pursue his policy agenda. add to those losses the rejection by voters progressive ballot proposals in texas and ohio. a rude awakening that left sm democrats wondering what went wrong. monday quarterbacking and headlines were these were all too happy to provide the answer to a different question. foot wh not what was to