So the rats won 3 of 4, making it 53-47.
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.