Of Cosmo’s 12 endorsed candidates, only two won: Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Rep. Gary Peters of Michigan.

Cosmo was so dedicated to telling its readers that Democrats are better for women it even endorsed two men over strong female Republican candidates — Rep. Bruce Braley over Joni Ernst in Iowa, and John Foust over Barbara Comstock in Virginia. Both men lost.

Other Cosmo Democrats who lost (some by very large margins): Staci Appel, Mary Burke, Wendy Davis, Alison Lundergan Grimes, Michelle Nunn, Amanda Renteria, Rep. Carol Shea-Porter and Sen. Mark Udall.

That’s a pretty bad opening bid as a political queenmaker.

2. Wendy Davis

Speaking of people who received a Cosmo endorsement but lost, Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis was defeated soundly by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.

Not only did Davis lose, but she lost by the biggest margin since the 1998 Texas gubernatorial election. A very conservative, pro-life Tea Party Republican candidate also picked up the state Senate seat she left to make her statewide run.

Davis secured the Democratic nomination through celebrity after she mounted an 11-hour filibuster against a ban on late-term abortions (after five months into a pregnancy). The war on women was her entire schtick, although after she had the nomination, her campaign tried to focus on anything but abortion (since she was running in such a deeply red state). Even so, she couldn’t escape the fact that her name was synonymous with that issue.

Davis proved to be an untested candidate and not nearly as dynamic as she first appeared. Democrats openly discussed her candidacy as a vehicle for turning Texas blue, but if anything, it set them back, especially considering her poor performance among Hispanic voters (the victorious Republican took 44 percent of their votes and actually won among Hispanic men). After going through tens of millions of dollars from national donors, Davis did little better than the weakest sacrificial-lamb candidates ever sent up to run statewide on the Texas Democratic ticket.

3. Sandra Fluke

Sandra Fluke, one could say, started the whole “war on women” narrative. Her testimony before Congress, where as a 30-year-old law student she lobbied Congress to pay for birth control pills, was the knell signaling the end of women’s empowerment in favor of their dependency on government-issued fertility control.

Fluke would have likely disappeared into anonymity if it hadn’t been for conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh calling her a “slut” for that testimony. As the victim of this slight, Fluke was rewarded with a personal conversation with President Obama and a speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

Two years later, Fluke decided to try and turn her 15 minutes of fame in a campaign for Congress. California Democrats did not want that, though, so instead she ran for state Senate. She was defeated yesterday by Ben Allen, a fellow progressive who had actually been a public servant in the district for years. Even though Fluke was profiled in Vogue magazine and given nearly continuous publicity by MSNBC, she lost to Allen by a 2-to-1 margin.

4. Mark Udall

Fluke and Davis found little success in creating careers from the war on women. But before their downfall, Udall thought he could lazily co-opt the narrative for his campaign and coast to victory. His single-minded focus on birth control became so apparent that he was dubbed “Mark Uterus” and even heckled by one of his own millionaire donors.

Part of the reason the narrative failed for Udall was that he was up against a Republican with an actual response. Rep. Cory Gardner countered Udall’s claims that he would ban birth control by repeatedly pointing out that he favored making such contraceptives available over the counter.

5. Martha Robertson

Democrats at one point were excited about the possibility of defeating Republican Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y. Their candidate, Martha Robertson, created a memorable political moment during one of her debates when she brought up the war on women, only to be laughed at and mocked by her audience.

Robertson went on lose her bid for Congress by 25 points.

6. MSNBC

As mentioned above, MSNBC did all that it could to get Fluke and Davis elected, with glowing profiles, softball interviews and the air time to campaign.

But all the interviews in the world couldn’t help those two get elected. The network, whose viewership is small and shrinking, creates a 24-hour news conversation beginning from premises that have little relation to the opinions and ideas of people in the real world. Its hosts wear tampon earrings to make political statements and literally gasp in horror at the idea that anyone would want to restrict abortion at all. There is no clearer demonstration of how far from reality MSNBC has become than the failure of the “war on women” narrative in the 2014 midterms.

7. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

The Democratic National Committee chairwoman went a bit too far in the war on women during the 2014 election, claiming in two different speeches that Republicans wanted to physically assault women — in a metaphorical sense, of course.

In Wisconsin, Wasserman Schultz told women that Gov. Scott Walker had given women “the back of his hand” and was “grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back.”

Walker won comfortably.

8. Lena Dunham

The “Girls” writer and star thought she could use her particular brand of whatever to influence the election. She even made a video for Glamour magazine where young women first talked about free they were and how great it was to be a woman in this day and age, but then quickly started claiming they were horribly oppressed.

Then there was Dunham herself, who admitted to, among other things, thinking that all someone had to do was “vote for Obama [and] then go back to eating Cheetos and reading gossip magazines.”

Of course, what Dunham appears to care about are the same things the Left thinks women care about exclusively: Abortion and birth control.

Because women couldn’t possibly care about jobs, the economy or anything other than what’s between the pages of those gossip magazines, right?