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Boing. so this is not an exhaustive list of political surprises and shocks, right? even just in recent history, you could put richard mourdock beating dick lugar in indiana or 1998, jesse ventura randomly becoming the governor of minnesota before getting a conspiracy theory tv show. but as a representative sampling, i think this helps contextualize what makes a political shock actually shocking. and all of these aggravating factors, how much of a blowout was it, was it your own party that turfed you out, were you an important figure in washington, were you an incumbent? how much of a surprise ...

Could put richard mourdock beating dick lugar in indiana or 1998, jesse ventura randomly becoming the governor of minnesota before getting a conspiracy theory tv show. but as a representative sampling, i think this helps contextualize what makes a political shock actually shocking. and all of these aggravating factors, how much of a blowout was it, was it your own party that turfed you out, were you an important figure in washington, were you an incumbent? how much of a surprise was it? did the beltway lose its mind. how consequential was this for people other than yourself? all of these aggra...