Wasn’t Cruz down big just before the election?
No, Dewhurst was below 50% before the first primary, with Cruz in a solid second place, so we all knew that there was an excellent chance that Cruz would make the run-off; and Cruz was about even with Dewhurst in the polls just before the run-off, so right before the vote we knew that Cruz probably would win.
Bevin is not going to win today’s primary, and KY does not have a run-off, so Bevin won’t get a second chance even if McConnell gets below 50% (which he won’t). A good candidate with a conservative record on which to run (such as Ted Cruz in Texas, Mike Lee in UT, Richard Mourdock in IN before he self-imploded, etc.) perhaps would have beaten McConnell in the primary, and then gone on to trounce Grimey (as she prefers to be called) in the general, but Bevin does not share such characteristics. Bevin should have run for a lower office instead before maybe running for the Senate in a few years.
[ Wasn’t Cruz down big just before the election? ]
Cruz was but Cruz wasn’t runnign against an incumbent that the bingo playing AARP crowd had burned intheir minds because they have been pulling the same lever for the last 30 years...
Cruz 480,558 34.16% Dewhurst 627,731 44.62% Runoff Cruz 631,812 56.82% Dewhurst 480,126 43.17%