Botched Obamacare launch, the 2013 government shutdown, Ebola, the police protests... I dunno. Obama was really unpopular in 2014, he was 41% approval.
Dems barely lost CO, NC, AK... you had longtime Dems retire in IA and MT and those flipped too. Overall, they lost NINE SEATS. NINE!
If they only lost 5, it would have been huge for 2016 when Scalia died or during Trump's first term to stop judges and the tax cuts...
Everyone talks about 2016 but the 2014 midterms are still with us and the Dems being so incompetent at winning these races is just crazy. It is clear that Trump is a unique figure in the GOP and he has managed to turn out their voters like no one since Bush 2004 or Reagan/Bush in the 1980s.