You are focusing too much on conspiracies and not enough on motivation. The President's party almost always loses seats in the midterm elections. The GOP played to their angry, agitated base and got them to show up by using identity politics and pandering to their most basic instincts. Nothing motivates people like fear and Republican's were convinced by their leadership that their country was on the edge of destruction. Democrats were feeling disheartened by a lack of policy progress and the malaise of the sixth year. Just look at Kansas. A massively disliked Republican whom many thought would be sent packing beat out Independent candidate Greg Orman because it was a landslide conservative vote in almost every state across the country. Sure, Republicans are mean and nasty - http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/04/gop-plays-ugly-against-independents.html - the are playing to win. You don't have to get down in the mud to claim the W on election night but if your voters are pissed, then you be pissed with them. Blaming voting machines and corrupt politicians ignores larger problems and actually hurts the organizing needed to put progressives into office. The gutting of voting rights act by the Supreme Court is a tragedy, absolutely. Go after the policy though, not the black helicopters.
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