Still, Mr. Bayh's exit darkens what already was a bleak election map for Senate Democrats.
In a bleak election for the nation's Democrats, one ray of hope was the Congressional campaign of Timothy H. Bishop, a political neophyte from Southampton who was holding a 2,421-vote 2,421-vote over Representative FeleadJ. Grucci Jr. in unofficial retoday.
A day removed from what was a relatively bleak election night special, Stephen Colbert was back on firmer ground on a live edition of "The Late Show".
In particular, the final results of 2014 shouldn't obscure the growing power of Latino voters in America: Polling shows that Latino voters represented a rare bright spot in an otherwise bleak election cycle, and demographics make clear that Latino voting power will only increase in coming years.
It's not much, but in an otherwise bleak election season, it's something.
Democrats seized the governor's office of four industrial battleground states on Tuesday and held onto California, providing some of the few encouraging signs in an otherwise bleak election season for the party.
IN THE immediate aftermath of another bleak election result for the Tories, Michael Howard, the Conservative Party leader, signalled that he would do his party one last, important service.
Research In Motion had a bleak post-election moment when it became clear that the fast texting President-elect Barack Obama will likely have to jettison his BlackBerry when he assumes office in January.
Yet listen to the defeatists, who speak of geopolitical and economic realities, and there is a bleak inevitability about the election of Sepp Blatter, football's most powerful man, to a fifth term as Fifa president.
With Democrats facing an increasingly bleak midterm election season, Mr. Obama used a speech at a union gathering on Labor Day, the traditional start of the campaign season, to outline his plan.
Democrats conceded they are not only fighting against tides of history — only twice in the last 75 years has the president's party not lost seats in a midterm election — but a bleak economy and an unemployment rate that remains close to 10 percent.
