Hans von Spakovsky has this important piece Four Lessons From the 2014 Election linked here:

“First, the manipulation of election rules and political trickery didn’t work. In Kansas, for example, the Democratic Party forced its U.S. Senate nominee to withdraw and refused to comply with a state law that required the party to name a replacement candidate for the ballot. Democrats were hoping that their voters would consolidate behind faux-independent candidate Greg Orman, a contributor to Barack Obama and the DSCC who, according to Vice President Joe Biden, would have caucused with Democrats if he had won. That political trickery failed — Republican incumbent Pat Roberts cruised to an easy victory with 53% of the vote to Orman’s 42%.”