Posted on 03/08/2016 12:10:10 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim
http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article64609062.html
Not happening....looks like the RATS have won at least two. :-(
What a shame
I think you wanted to reply to #20.
BTW: It is a shame...
Kentucky 98th District
Registered Voters
18,256 Democrats
11,370 Republicans
Total Voters At 75% Counted
583
Just terrible
It would’ve been tied into the statewide contest in 1919. The prior Democrat Governor had just barely beaten the Republican by a few hundred votes in 1915 (49%). The administration became unpopular with allegations of corruption, and both the Gov and Lt Gov, despite being Dems, were at odds with each other. Gov. Stanley looked for an early out and jumped into the Senate race of 1918, where he barely (again) beat a Republican with just 50%.
He then held off on resigning the Governorship for months until May 1919, and Lt. Gov. James Black ascended, while the Republican Morrow hadn’t stopped running: “Right the wrong of 1915 !” Black got the nomination for the full term, but it was a fiasco going into the fall and he lost by a margin of almost 9% to Morrow, and apparently that helped the GOP downballot.
It was actually 8200 or so voters in the 98th District. They had the % reporting wrong on the website. Still a lot didn’t bother to vote.
Theophilius: Re “Wish ii could vote”.
Hell, go to Chicago. You can vote there anytime, any place, and any amount of times. “It’s the Chicago way”.
Yeah well it's not the Kentucky way. Not anymore.
First week of the month you're likely to see an Access card than a bank card at Walmart.
So, 1919, lost in 1920, 1 year terms? Where there any previous GOP majorities, in either house? I know we elected a couple Senators but the more recent one at least was the result of a rat split.
So the rats won 3 of 4, making it 53-47.
No, I believe they were either 2 or 4 year terms at the time. I don’t have the numbers for the legislature, but the two times prior there were enough Republicans to elect a Senator occurred in 1897 and 1909, following the occasions when they had elected GOP Governors (in 1895 & 1907).
Had Republican Edwin Morrow won the 1915 Gubernatorial election, he probably would’ve run for and won the 1918 Senate race, and would likely have served until 1930 (as a bad GOP year would’ve seen him defeated).
Morrow’s uncle, William Bradley, was the 1st GOP Governor of KY in 1895, he later was elected by the legislature in 1909 to the other Senate seat. Although there were technically not enough Republicans to elect Bradley, Dem ex-Gov. J.C.W. Beckham was not universally popular with KY Democrats and his utter refusal to withdraw for a compromise Dem resulted in four “Wet” Democrats voting for Republican Bradley (who opposed Prohibition).
Bradley died in 1914, right after being struck by a streetcar the day he was declaring he wouldn’t run in the first Senatorial popular election that year. Curiously, Beckham got his seat.
The Dems can’t keep the House indefinitely. Their majority is built on a tenuous gerrymander house of cards. They have to run a regular election in November where turnout will be much higher for the GOP. Even if they had swept all the seats tonight, that wouldn’t have been enough for that majority (although I expect once the GOP breaks through, a number of those Dems may start to switch).
Like here in TN, the Dems held onto the House far past their time, also based on gerrymandering (with the GOP getting a majority of the vote in the ‘90s) and a ruthless, dictatorial Dem Speaker (Boss Hogg Naifeh, similar to Stumpy in KY). It took 3 elections to go from minority to supermajority, and that will happen in KY. The only Dems that will be left in the KY legislature will hail from the Louisville-Lexington urban leftist axis of evil, and not much else. Even the eastern union/mining counties are moving back to the GOP as they were before the 1930s.
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