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Dems in shock over near landslide loss of Kentucky governorship to Tea Party Republican
American Thinker ^ | Nov 4, 2015 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 11/04/2015 5:46:00 AM PST by EXCH54FE

Democrats outspent and outpolled Republican novice Matt Bevin, and expected their candidate, Attorney General Jack Conway, to keep the Kentucky governorship in Democrat hands, where it had been for all but one term of the last half century. Instead, Tea Partier Bevin, who had previously challenged Mitch McConnell for the GOP nomination for Senator and lost big, pulled off a near landslide victory with an 85,000 vote margin. Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Alan Blinder of the New York Times:

In beating his Democratic opponent, Attorney General Jack Conway, by almost nine percentage points, Mr. Bevin, 48, shocked people in his own party, who believed that the climate in Kentucky was ripe for a Republican but feared that Mr. Bevin, a charismatic conservative with a go-it-alone style, was too far out of the mainstream and too inexperienced to win.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bevin; elections; kentucky; landslide; teaparty; teapartyrebellion
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Outstanding NEWS!!!!!
1 posted on 11/04/2015 5:46:00 AM PST by EXCH54FE
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To: EXCH54FE

And Mitch McConnell is looking for a place to change his drawers...


2 posted on 11/04/2015 5:47:49 AM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: EXCH54FE

Tea Party is dead, doncha know?


3 posted on 11/04/2015 5:47:55 AM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: EXCH54FE

Bevin didn’t ignore Conservatives


4 posted on 11/04/2015 5:48:55 AM PST by RginTN
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To: ameribbean expat

Unfortunately Mitch the B...h is safe for almost his whole term. When they have the next senate election, hopefully he is voted out as majority leader in favor of someone who plans to run the dems off the playing field.


5 posted on 11/04/2015 5:49:25 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: EXCH54FE

C’est la vie!!


6 posted on 11/04/2015 5:49:25 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: EXCH54FE

this is good... maybe he can appoint a conservative to the senate when mitch throws in the towel.


7 posted on 11/04/2015 5:49:48 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: EXCH54FE

Despite everything, no one yet seems adequately to assess the dissatisfaction of the American electorate.


8 posted on 11/04/2015 5:50:03 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: EXCH54FE

“Mr. Bevin, 48, shocked people in his own party, who believed that the climate in Kentucky was ripe for a Republican but feared that Mr. Bevin, a charismatic conservative with a go-it-alone style, was too far out of the mainstream and too inexperienced to win.”

Yeah, the party boys always seem to be shocked when a conservative wins, particularly after saying that the conservative couldn’t possibly win, but tend to go silent when yet another of their squishy middle-of-the-road candidates goes down in flames.


9 posted on 11/04/2015 5:50:08 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: EXCH54FE

Early signs of a wave election in 2016. Now we just need to pick the right candidate.


10 posted on 11/04/2015 5:50:17 AM PST by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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“too far out of the mainstream and too inexperienced”

...that’s exactly how he won. Dave Brat is another good example.


11 posted on 11/04/2015 5:50:45 AM PST by albie
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the guy is a better, finer person than he is politician......


12 posted on 11/04/2015 5:51:07 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: albie

yep, that “experienced mainstream” will kill you.....


13 posted on 11/04/2015 5:51:36 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: EXCH54FE

I’m surprised there wasn’t rampant voter fraud to be honest.


14 posted on 11/04/2015 5:51:39 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: EXCH54FE

GOPe in shock as well.


15 posted on 11/04/2015 5:52:00 AM PST by NonValueAdded (In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act)
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To: EXCH54FE
In beating his Democratic opponent, Attorney General Jack Conway, by almost nine percentage points, Mr. Bevin, 48, shocked people in his own party, who believed that the climate in Kentucky was ripe for a Republican but feared that Mr. Bevin, a charismatic conservative with a go-it-alone style, was too far out of the mainstream and too inexperienced to win.

And just to sweeten the pot, his Lt. Gubbernor is a black, TEA Party woman Jenean Hampton.


16 posted on 11/04/2015 5:52:11 AM PST by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: CPT Clay

The Tea Party has peaked.


17 posted on 11/04/2015 5:52:16 AM PST by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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To: EXCH54FE

Meanwhile the unions bought the school boards in Colorado.


18 posted on 11/04/2015 5:52:20 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: teeman8r
We're on the same wavelength.

While less likely, it is still possible that McConnell will get the boot, much like Boner.

If he's eventually run out of town, we'll be glad to have a R Governor, since his replacement will be appointed.

19 posted on 11/04/2015 5:52:41 AM PST by TontoKowalski (Satisfied Customer #291)
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To: EXCH54FE

It puts Mitch into a delicate position now. The insiders intended for him to retire in a year or two, and have the governor to appoint a new replacement. Mitch is pretty much stuck now....if he retires...the governor will just pick himself, and go into DC as a Senator via this option.


20 posted on 11/04/2015 5:52:49 AM PST by pepsionice
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