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To: Steven Scharf; AuH2ORepublican; Republican Wildcat; BillyBoy

You need more votes than any other candidate. The total # of numerical votes is irrelevant. Turnout was way lower and it was a race with 3 major candidates rather than 2 like the Senate race (plus a 4th who got 7%).

I’m not a big fan of this guy but this certainly qualifies as a remarkable comeback, going from a terrible Senate challenger who only got any votes at all by default because many on the right hate Mitch McConnell, to impressing people that didn’t like him before and beating a popular statewide official (James Comer) who by all logic should have been the unanimous consensus choice for the gubernatorial nomination.

You could certainly argue he’d have a lost a runoff with Comer (he did get a slightly lower PERCENTAGE of the vote than he did in the Senate race) but we can’t know that for sure. The third guy, a RINO named Heiner, went hard negative against Comer, he and his supporters may have backed Bevin in a runoff.

16 posted on 05/28/2015 7:50:59 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)

To: fieldmarshaldj

17 posted on 05/28/2015 7:52:45 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)

Heiner is a RINO? My (very conservative) uncle lives in Louisville and thinks that Heiner is the bee’s knees (and voted for him in the primary).

19 posted on 05/28/2015 10:05:51 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)

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