Even after a record $4 billion spent on the midterm elections, the national voter turnout was the lowest in over 70 years -- 36.3 percent. Typically, the midterms draw 40 to 42 percent, still well below the presidential election years, which is typically 60 percent. Yet, the Republicans consider this vote a mandate of their beliefs. Whatever they are? With so much apparently riding on the line, you would have thought voters to come out in droves, instead they seemed to be battened down in their homes after a media blitzkrieg like none ever before in midterm elections. Campaign spending in 2014 dwarfed that in 2010, when the Republicans similarly swept the country in midterm elections, retaking the House of Representatives in unprecedented fashion, as well as key governor races. Texas had an abysmal 28.5% voter turnout, in what had once been seen as a hotly contested governor's race between Wendy Davis and Greg Abbott. Wendy fail...