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Housing or any number of other things in houston just because somebody thinks you're gay. and then there's kentucky. republican matt bevin is now governor-elect. basically all the polls in the state predicting that the race to go the other way. matt bevin, republican matt bevin won the governorship last night turning the state of kentucky red taking over from a democratic governor. the first republican governor of kentucky in decades. last night's election makes matt bevin second republican governor of kentucky literally in the last four decades. that race was just a huge upset for democrats. ...

You have also seen thanks to the massive turnout problems democrats faced in 2010 and 2014, big margins in the non red states of the south, right? you have the problem in ohio or wisconsin or in florida which let's remember barack obama won twice. right? really big margins for republicans and this is something we have seen throughout the country, not just in the deep south but most pronounced in the deep south. >> you're saying that there's a geographic way to understand what's happening in the deep south and definitely the obama era democratic party tried to make inroads there, right? the big...

Only statewide elected democrat in mississippi because jim hood beat the odds and beat the g geopolitical head wind and held on to the seat last night. and other than that, things didn't go great for democrats and progressives on election night 2015. i mean, if you were rooting for the blue team last night, those things that i just mentioned, those were probably the things that you were cheering about. those were the available straws if you wanted to do some grasping at straws in terms of progressive victories last night on election night in america. but elsewhere, and mostly it was not a good...

Couldn't get it together to pick themselves a democratic candidate who anyone had ever heard of. mississippi also last night upped the size of the republican majority in the house. they're now at something quite close to a super majority in terms of republican rule in the state legislature. in virginia, democrats thought that they were going to win the state senate last night. they only needed to flip one senate seat to take control but they failed at that effort. virginia senate is still republican. houston, houston, texas, now the largest city in the country that does not have a nondiscrimin...