While you and I were paying attention to this month's midterm elections to puzzle out who

is 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, did you just hear it 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 mayoral 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

two. 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 were 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 because it's kind of gauche?

Yeah, I mean, even in a really partisan state, Kentucky has nonpartisan elections.

And, you know, judges aren't supposed to be talking about which party they support,

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