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Better with Pepsi Max. While you and I were paying attention to this month's midterm elections to puzzle out who was going to gain control of the US House or the Senate,

Eric Ortiz from over at NBC News, he was focused on something else.

Judges.

You know, the judiciary gets the shaft in a lot of ways when it comes to coverage because you know and rightly so everyone

cares about you know if it's a presidential election year or if it's a governor of a state or you know

even mayor or all races can be hot ticket races but these sort of races aren't normally

at the forefront of voters minds.

Eric was paying attention to judges because in a lot of places they run for election too.

And in the last few years, their once sleepy races have really woken up.

All across the country, Eric reported on insurgent campaigns to unseat judges who are perceived

as two liberal, like in Kentucky, where a Republican state legislator named Joe Fisher took

aim at the registered independent who was set to become one of the state's most senior Supreme

Court justices.

Fisher so badly wanted voters to know about his right-wing point of view

that he filed a lawsuit over it.

He was not ashamed to talk about his conservative ideology.

He branded himself as the conservative Republican in the race.

That's something that does not happen really ever. Even in a place like

Kentucky where you know again it's a deeply conservative state. Is that just

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