Posted on 02/17/2014 10:41:36 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
In 2010, one out of every two registered Republicans in the heart of southern Kentucky’s “Old 5th” congressional district came out to vote.
A contiguous bloc of 14 counties in southern Kentucky boasted the most fertile and efficient ground for gathering Republican votes in that year’s primary. Those counties (see chart below) had slightly fewer registered Republicans than the 157,000 in Jefferson County, the state’s largest county. The 14-county region has less than half the population of Jefferson County.
Yet, it turned out 78,200 Republicans in that spring’s primary compared to 50,449 in Jefferson County.
A big reason: scores of local Republican primaries for county and city races that ginned up enough excitement and interest to motivate half of the number of registered Republicans to get out and vote.
Conditions are similar this spring in which many voters’ friends and neighbors are on the ballot for positions like county clerk, sheriff, magistrate, judge-executive and district judge in those counties — along with the U.S. Senate.
So Republican voters in the old 5th can expect to see a lot of material from the U.S. Senate candidates, particularly U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, who has been known for a carefully calculated election plan.
Perhaps no where is the crowded ballot most represented than the 16th state Senate District, which features seven counties in the heart of the Old 5th (Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, McCreary, Russell, Taylor and Wayne). That Republican primary for state Senate between Sen. Sara Beth Gregory, R-Monticello, and Campbellsville University professor Max Wise is shaping up to be one of the most competitive in Kentucky this spring.
Four years ago, more than half...
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Oh CRAP!!! I hope Matt Bevin is working this area hard and heavy.
If true conservatives don’t want to start their own party, they should at least make some big changes in the republican party IF they can get take over. First and foremost, stop all financial support for any member who breaks the 13th amendment.
Gregory is pre-committed to McC; Wise is neutral in the Senate primary, but his mother and wife are former McC backers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Beth_Gregory
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