How Clinton-Backed Candidates Fared
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Normally, it's the president and first lady who are making the campaign rounds during the lead up to a Midterm Election. This year, it was a former president and former first lady taking on the role of party elders.
Bill and Hillary Clinton were aggressive campaigners for Democratic candidates across the country in the weeks leading up to Election Day.
Between President Obama's low approval rating and Hillary Clinton's widely expected 2016 presidential ambitions, the campaign trail was an open, easy way for the Clintons to shore up some national goodwill.
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PHOTO: Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes campaigns with former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally on Nov. 1, 2014 in Highland Heights, Ky.
As such, Hillary Clinton's list includes nearly half as many candidates as her husband, but all told she did travel to 20 states during the course of the campaign.
Their makeshift scorecard of how many of their picks did well at the polls will be updated throughout the night, but they had one notable early upset. Both Clintons made more than one visit to Kentucky on behalf of Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democrat who ran-- and lost-- against Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell.
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PHOTO: Former President Bill Clinton campaigns for Bruce Braley at the Electric Park Ballroom, Nov. 1, 2014 in Waterloo, Iowa.
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How Clinton-Backed Candidates Fared