I wonder if Kentucky’s elections being held in an odd-numbered year, not in the midterms with most other states or even a presidential year, insulates it from the kind of anti-Democratic waves that would have blown the KY Dems out of power.
The legislative elections are held with the national ones, and it still hasn’t helped the GOP take the KY House, yet. If you had told me 20 years ago that Arkansas and West Virginia’s legislatures would’ve gone majority GOP in both chambers before KY, I’d have thought that was nuts.