Posted on 03/07/2013 9:18:39 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
Most of them have already made the transition at the top of the ticket. It’s just a trickle-down effect from the federal to the courthouse level. As it is, parts of KY have been Republican with little to no interruption since Reconstruction (SE KY, absent the coal mining counties along the VA/WV border, though some of those were GOP-leaning before the UMW, and are already trending back, especially after Hal Rogers took in the old 7th, represented for decades by the Perkins’s).
The westernmost part, which was dominated by the Dem politics of Alben Barkley, moved to the GOP in the ‘90s after Ed Whitfield’s election to Congress.
The only real Dem strength for the forseeable future is going to be centered in the urban areas of Louisville and Lexington (Blacks & White libs) and the big gubmint supporting Frankfort. The suburbs and the rest of the rural parts of the state will provide the majority GOP strength.
Add in, too, the stupidity of KY Dems recruiting a national Democrat radical like Ashley Judd to run for the Senate, and it’s only going to have a backlash effect downballot.
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