The Democratic Party’s strategy to bring down GOP candidates by tying them to billionaires Charles and David Koch appears to have been a miserable failure in Tuesday’s elections.

In the months leading up to the midterm elections, outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and his allies hammered away relentlessly at the libertarian-leaning industrialists, claiming in speeches, interviews, radio and television ads and even from the floor of the U.S. Senate that the two private citizens have corrupted U.S. politics with “dark” money.