How I would describe the division within DU

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98. Well, let's see. 10 incumbent Democrats were defeated. 2 were conservative.

Garcia (FL-26): pro-choice, opposes repealing ACA, pro marriage equality, opposed to offshore drilling, a chief cosponsor of immigration reform. He's rather to the right on Cuba, but then he's named "Garcia" and is in south Florida. He lost to Curbelo, who ran on tax cuts, increasing the number of for-profit colleges, and deficit reduction.

Barrow (GA-12): Blue dog. This guy got drawn out of his own district twice by the legislature, but hung on until this year. He was the only white Democrat in the deep south. Voted against ACA and to uphold DOMA. Against immigration reform. Weakly pro-choice. Lost to Allen, who ran on cutting spending, opposing gun control, increasing drilling, and cutting taxes.

Schneider (IL-10): campaigned calling himself a progressive. Pro marriage equality. Sponsored a bill to increase the Federal minimum wage to $10.10. Supports ACA. Lost to Dold, who ran on tax cuts, supporting Israel, confronting Iran, repealing ACA, and border enforcement.

Enyart (IL-12): Supports DREAM. Supports raising taxes on the wealthy. Called the Bush tax cuts "class warfare". Sponsored bills to limit government surveillance. Voted to close Guantanamo. Voted to forbid detention of any American citizens. Lost to Bost, who ran on cutting taxes (especially on farms), increasing biodiesel, repealing ACA, and cutting spending.

Horsford (NV-4): Only in for one term, but he was a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Strongly pro-choice. Has called for the jailing of bankers in the wake of the financial crisis. Supports increased education funding. Lost to Hardy, who ran on cutting taxes, cutting spending, expanding charter schools, and introducing vouchers.

Shea-Porter (NH-1): Supports cap and trade. Opposes Keystone XL. Strongly pro-choice. Lost to Guinta, who isn't very far to her right (the two have been handing this seat back and forth for a few terms now). NH Republicans are still NH Republicans.

Bishop (NY-1): Reliably pro-choice. Pro gun control. Pro-environment. Dove. Lost to Zeldin, who ran on privatizing Social Security and "protecting business from the lies of climate change".

Maffei (NY-24): Pro-choice. Pro marriage equality. Voted to include sexual orientation as a hate crimes category. Supports CO2 limits and government investment in renewables. Against "free trade". Pro gun control. Supported DREAM act. Lost by 20 points to Katko, who ran on tax cuts, repealing Obamacare, and opposing equal pay laws (seriously, anybody from central New York know what the hell happened there?).

Gallego (TX-23): (Not to be confused with the other Gallego, who won.) Blue dog. Opposes marriage equality. Supported ACA. Supports DREAM (took some flack from the blue dog coalition for that, in fact). Lost to Hurd, who ran against ACA and scary immigrants swimming into Texas.

Rahall (WV-3): Wants to end mountaintop removal mining (in WV, God bless him). Introduced a bill to ban incandescent light bulb import and manufacture. Of Arab descent, he has been point man on House outreach to a lot of figures in the Arab world. Lost (badly) to Jenkins whose campaign can be summarized as repeating the word "coal" over and over again.

Also, while I'm here, we lost 1 territorial delegate:

Faleomavaega (AS-At large): Kind of sui generis; he's a pro-independence advocate for American Samoa, and lost to Amata, who favors statehood. Not sure what either of their positions on national issues are because the delegates don't vote.

So, of the 10 Democrats who lost, 2 were conservative, 1 was kind of on the line (but lost because he wasn't coal-y enough), and 7 were the kind of explicitly progressive candidate that people swear will beat conservatives.