WEIRD THAT FEMINISTS AREN’T MORE EXCITED ABOUT TENNESSEE’S FIRST WOMAN SENATOR: Marsha Blackburn wins Tennessee’s US Senate race: 4 takeaways on her historic victory.

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Tennessee Democrats fielded their best candidates for governor and U.S. Senate in a dozen years. And what did they get in return?

A blowout loss by nearly 20 percentage points in the race for governor and a not-quite-as-bad loss of around 10 points for U.S. Senate.

Not even Bredesen, the last Democrat to have any statewide office in Tennessee, could turn around the party’s statewide fortunes, particularly in rural counties.

Bredesen won many of these rural counties, particularly in Middle and West Tennessee, during his 2002 victory over Republican Van Hilleary. He won all of the state’s 95 counties in his 2006 re-election.

And yet this time, when it came to Bredesen’s race for U.S. Senate, Blackburn won many of these same counties with more than 70 percent of the vote.

As the piece notes, Bredesen was leading until Dianne Feinstein’s late hit set off the Kavanaugh craziness. Kavanaugh also probably cost Donnelly, Heitkamp, and Nelson their seats. Without that from Feinstein, the Dems might have taken the Senate.

UPDATE: From the comments: “Oh no. This will lead to yet another Taylor Swift song about a man disappointing her.”