Josh Goodman has written this interesting post at the Governing magazine blog. His key point: “And, to me, that gets at a big part of why Davis lost. The gap between the positions he had to take in a 72% Obama district and the positions he had to take to win statewide in Alabama simply proved too large. Due to the Voting Rights Act, most Southern states have districts like Davis’. Unless I’m mistaken, never once has a black Democrat representing one of these districts in the South won statewide office.”