Energy was the big winner in the 2014 elections, American Petroleum Institute Pres. Jack N. Gerard said the day after polls closed and ballots were counted. “In race after race, voters from all regions of our nation and from both political parties voted for pro-development, true all-of-the-above energy policies,” he said. The trend extended beyond US Senate races, where Republicans regained the majority after 6 years, to several gubernatorial contests, Gerard told reporters in a Nov. 5 teleconference. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D), who lost his reelection bid, had stood in the way of oil and gas development in that state, while Colorado Gov. John W. Hickenlooper (D), whose background as a geologist helped him support oil and gas activity, was reelected for another 4 years, Gerard said. He said that Hickenlooper prevailed while another Colorado Democrat, US […]