“The combination of the national tide that swept the country, massive amounts of secret corporate cash funding a campaign of distortions, and dirty politics by Washington D.C. partisan operatives was just too much to overcome.”

– U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-NC), in a not-so-gracious concession speech Friday after losing to Republican challenger Renee Ellmers after a protracted recount. Etheridge made headlines for manhandling, on camera, a college student who asked him an uncomfortable question during a June encounter.