Obama, Brown, Coakley, higher taxes all suffer Bryan ThomasHillary Clinton was unable to save any Democrats in the party’s 2014 election fiasco.Republicans were the unanimous winners in the 2014 midterm elections. The Democrats were beaten to a pulp. Here are the five biggest political losers on Tuesday.Barack Obama Duh. Obama becomes only the second president in the modern era to suffer not just one, but two wave-style defeats. (Franklin Roosevelt was the other.) Democrats have lost a net 11 Senate seats—and the number is likely to rise to 13—since Obama’s second year in office. And Democrats have lost a net 67 House seats since 2010, with some results still being counted. That puts him in Harry Truman territory. Virtually every candidate—and there were not many—the president actively campaigned for went down in flames, including the governor of Obama’s home state of Illinois. The president’s domestic agenda is now dead in the water, with two years to go in his term.Hillary Clinton The presumed Democratic front-runner for the presidential nomination in 2016 campaigned for a handful of endangered Democratic candidates, but her pleas fell on deaf ears. Even high-profile campaign stops in Arkansas, where she and husband Bill Clinton rose to political prominence, failed to make a dent in a runaway Republican victory. Hillary can probably kiss goodbye any chance of winning in Arkansas in 2016 given the state’s dramatic shift toward Republicans. And Clinton’s apparent ineffectiveness on the campaign trail this year could undermine her effort to deter other Democrats from entering the presidential race.Anthony Brown/Martin O’Malley The lieutenant governor of heavily Democratic Maryland was expected to run away with the race to replace Martin O’Malley, the outgoing two-term governor. Instead Brown, an African-American, fell prey to the biggest upset of the 2014 elections. He lost handily to little-known Republican Larry Hogan, who relentlessly criticized a series of tax increases implemented under O’Malley. The Brown shocker is likely to weigh like a ton of bricks on the head of O’Malley, an ambitious politician trying to position himself to party faithful as a more liberal alternative to Hillary Clinton.Martha Coakley The longtime Massachusetts politician is doing her very best to revive the idea of a viable Republican party in the Bay State. First the Democrat ran a terrible campaign in 2010 and lost Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat to moderate Republican Scott Brown. Now she’s lost the governor’s race to Charlie Baker, a moderate Republican businessman who focused on economic issues. When political consultants advise future candidates on how to run for higher office, they are likely to use Coakley as the poster child for what not to do. She was bland and impersonal and never gave voters a sense that they really knew where she stood.Higher taxes Brown of Maryland and Pat Quinn, the Democratic governor of Illinois, both lost elections in largely blue states because of a backlash against higher taxes. And the Democratic governor of Connecticut, Dan Malloy, will probably just barely hold on against a challenger who repeatedly attacked Malloy for a series of tax hikes. In more conservative Kansas, meanwhile, Republican Gov. Sam Brownback beat back a stiff challenge despite complaints that he cut taxes too much and caused the state to incur higher budget shortfalls. Republicans Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Rick Syder of Michigan also fended off challenges from Democrats who accused them of excess tax cuts. The lesson: taxes are still a potent issue for Republicans. Jeffry Bartash