Yeah it was repeatably stated by rat types for years that “if we win that seat we are winning the house”.
Sweet sassy molassy.
KY has a chance at finally getting an all GOP delegation if Paul wins and Yarmuth and legacy rat Chandler III can be eliminated.
Almost had it in 1998 with Jim Bunning picking up the Senate seat and Ernie Fletcher winning Scotty Baesler’s seat but “conservative” rat Ken Lucas (actually more conservative than a few RINOs he served with) had to go and steal Bunning’s open seat.
It was just like 1994 in Maine with the House seats of the 2 Senate candidates each switched hands. Baesler tried to get the House seat back in 2000 in what was supposed to be a marque race and got CRUSHED by 18 points with some Reform party guy getting 12% (DJ you know anything about that?).
That pus Chandler ultimately reclaimed it for the rats after Fletcher became Governor, right before we got the other seat back after Lucas quit in favor of Nick Clooney. Some deranged freeper from the district insisted to me that Clooney would not only win but win easily because old people liked his sister and remembered when he used be on tv in the area and they wouldn’t mind at all that every Hollywood liberal gave him a maximum donation.
Lucas ran again in 2006 and I was thrilled that his district rejected his pro-Pelosi ass. But Northrup went down to make it 4-2 GOP.
Impy, you do remember the big difference between the 2002 race in whivh Ken Lucas beat Geoff Davis and the 2006 rematch in which Davis won, right? A clue: it had something to do with Davis’s upper lip.
I didn't expect Baesler to get his seat back, but his 35% showing was embarrassing (and effectively a career-ender). Gatewood Galbraith is a fairly well-known KY perennial candidate, and he got a good chunk of the liberal and drug-legalization protest vote (actually, if you add in Baesler & Galbraith's totals, they got 47%, about what I'd have expected Baesler to receive). After all that happened, I rather wish Dr. Fletcher had stayed put in his House seat, he'd have never had the same problems going to Frankfort.
Nick Clooney was a strong candidate and could have won. It took an excellent GOP candidate in Geoff Davis running a good, smart campaign to win and hold the seat the next term.