Posted on 11/06/2019 8:11:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
If you were on social media last night, you probably saw a lot of folks on the left celebrating that Kentucky, a deep red state, “had turned blue” because of the razor-thin victory of Democrat Andy Beshear over incumbent Republican Matt Bevin.
Let me just get it out of the way right now and tell you that Kentucky isn’t turning blue. The state hasn’t been “flipped” or whatever else they’re saying.
We’ve seen this narrative before. When Democrat Doug Jones narrowly defeated Republican Roy Moore in the special election for Jeff Sessions’ vacant Senate seat in 2017, many on the left seemed to interpret that election as a sign of Trump’s weakness, and Alabama’s competitiveness in future statewide elections.
Yet, no one deluded themselves into thinking that Massachusetts was becoming a red state when Charlie Baker flipped the governorship from Democrat to Republican in 2014. No one believes that Massachusetts might turn red in 2020, even though Charlie Baker is the most popular governor in the country—and has been for some time.
There were six statewide elections in Kentucky on Tuesday, and here are the results:
Governor: Democrat +0.4
Attorney General: Republican +15.5
Agriculture Commissioner: Republican +19.6
Auditor: Republican + 14.6
Secretary of State: Republican +4.4
Treasurer: Republican +21.4
Does that look like a state that is turning blue? Or does that look like a state where the GOP candidate was uniquely unpopular? Spoiler alert: According to a Morning Consult poll from last month, Matt Bevin was the second-least popular governor in the country with an approval rating of 34 percent. Yet, Bevin only lost by 0.4 percent. It's safe to say that Trump's 11th-hour involvement in the race helped Bevin, just not enough. Yet, the left is deluding themselves into thinking anti-Trumpism has turned the state blue.
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If I could put the five clothespins on my nose to pull that lever for McCain in 2008, Kentuckians could certainly have held their nose and cast one more vote for Bevin.
Despite the media’s obsession with anti-@realDonaldTrump spin, Kentucky is nothing like the race the radical 2020 Democrats are running.
Congratulations to all the fantastic Republican candidates — including 5 statewide in Kentucky — who have won so far!— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) November 6, 2019
No one energizes our base like @realDonaldTrump.
In Kentucky, the governor was down 17 points.
President Trump helped lift the entire ticket, winning 5 of 6 statewide races so far!— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) November 6, 2019
The state isn’t turning blue but the election showed that people aren’t opposed to splitting their ticket. Mitch McConnell should be leery about 2020.
America is turning blue. The left was given control of the educational system. Decades of indoctrination have begun to yield putrid fruit.
Hang on, it’s not going to get any better.
KY is Red and will stay Red in 2020.
I have heard Bevin was extremely unpopular as a governor. If not, it wouldn’t have been close.
Mitch should get re-elected easily. Why? Trump will be on the ballot and he’ll win big.
That’s significant even for just one reason here: The New Jersey GOP has been a comical joke for years.
Exactly. I get tired of this. The winner is a far left extremist. I don’t give a damn about excuses. Kentucky blew it.
I voted for McCain against Ann Kirkpatrick, a rotten, feminist carpetbagger who is on her third district as a rep in congress. I voted for Flake over a guy who swindled hospitals and wanted to dissolve the Mexican border. Kentucky stunk it up.
Every state wide GOP candidate got 100,000 more votes then Bevin. That includes the 1st GOP AG in KY EVER. Pretty clear Bevin was not popular with the GOP base despite Trumps best efforts.
It never ceases to amaze me how short sighted republican voters are.
They voted overwhelmingly republican in the lower tickets but refused to vote republican for Governor.
Not only did they screw themselves by giving themselves a communist party governor. They allowed the communist party to declare victory and influence future votes for Trump.
I have a hard time thinking of any politician of either party that I have EVER disliked as much as McCain.
And yet I voted for him. Because the alternative was unthinkable.
In KY voters are historically Democrat but they’re conservative. Its a Midwest version of OK in the plains.
That’s why they’re usually reliable GOP voters.
Can you say “FRAUD”? I knew you could!
Look at Kentucky's voter registration information. They're not Republicans.
I wish Bevin had won, but I don't want to sit here from another state hundreds of miles away and criticize Kentucky citizens for their votes. Maybe Bevin was just an @sshole, and maybe he just ran an awful campaign.
I saw a report yesterday that said only 31% of the registered voters in Kentucky even bothered to vote. That tells me that the candidate named "I Don't Give a F#%&" actually won the governor's race.
They’re conservative Democrats, They usually do vote Republican but not always as we saw last night in the governor’s race.
Fully half of the people of this nation either want the tyranny of the Left Wing political class, or simply don’t believe in it (or are completely checked out of civic life).
The people of San Francisco and Los Angeles WANT shit on the streets, needles everywhere they turn and typhoid and bubonic plague in their cities. What they don’t want is to have to do anything to lift themselves out of their squalor - they don’t want the idea of a person being responsible for their own lives and own situation. They’ve turned their lives over to the tyranny of the wealthy political class willingly.
To many people who don’t live in those places...and never go there themselves, these places are no more real that garbage dump cities around Manila. They’re no more real than that to them...and they vote not believing in that but definitely believing that their public sector pay will go up by backing the political class.
Democracy is a form a tyranny. It can be manipulated - has been manipulated here - to create the same conditions that existed in old feudal and monarchical states. That is why it is hard to see how we will ever vote our way out of our own moral and social deterioration into chaos and poverty. Over the long haul that is probably not possible. Eventually, if we really want out it will have to be by force.
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