[11th_VA]

How did that governor ever get elected in KY

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The Rep ran a horrible campaign, but it’s all good. As long as Republicans control the legislature, that checks him.

[Vaduz]

You would be amazed how many people don’t know what they vote for their advice comes from ads and media.

[packagingguy]

There were videos of his challenger losing votes as election night unfolded.

It’s was in late 2020 after that election fiasco that someone posted the video showing that losing votes is a real thing.

So there’s the possibility that’s not the Governor Kentucky elected.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Several reasons.
*Family name. Beshears are a KY dynasty. Daddy was governor (also corrupt) People are stupid and vote for family names.

*Matt Bevin tried to do too much of the right thing (reforming KY pensions) too soon. He also went head on with the state employees unions - particularly the teachers union. He pointedly called them what they are - publicly - bad PR. He got creamed for that.

*Beshear won by a little more than 4K votes, carrying some counties that usually vote 90% Republican (yeah)

*Louisville and Lexington are uber leftist.

*Beshear promised to keep the unsustainable pension gravy train running for the state employees and teachers

*If Bevin had left the pension reform until a lame duck second term he would be governor now.

[Gene Eric]

>> How did that governor ever get elected in KY

KY had the abortion ballot measure

[Phoenix8]

Some of it is being he was not considered a Kentuckian. He was born in Colorado and raised in liberal New Hampshire. He only moved to the state in 1999. I live across the river in Indiana but my parents live in Ky and they felt he was a rino to some degree and just stayed home.

So I think he partially just didnt raise much enthusiasm although sure he would be better than a democrap.

[StAnDeliver]

"How did that governor ever get elected in KY"

• When a woman of Christian conscience was imprisoned in KY -- by the dumb-as-a-stump son of baseball HoF Jim Bunning *spit* -- for refusing to issue a same-sex wedding license ( Miller v. Davis ), it pulled Bevin's 2015 campaign for Goobernor out of the ashes.

• Quick history: after laughably being curb-stomped by Miotch in 2014 for Miotch's Senate seat, Bevin grabbed the Goobership as the booby prize, but as Goobernor, angrily morphed into "Big Daddy", insinuating that casino goers were 'suicidal' ( but the investment firm Bevin worked for was all-in on casinos ).

• In 2019, Bevin inexplicably fired his Lt. Governor, a black woman, thus inciting the ferals in Lou and Lex for revenge.

• Those 5,189 votes that Bevin lost by, could have easily been scraped back a week before the election, had Bevin just made neutral noises like "let the voters decide" on casinos. "It's the casinos, stupid." Nope, went on radio in both markets and doubled down. "Casino goers in KY have the highest rate of suicide, it's one a day."

• Bevin suppressed his own turnout in one of the worst-run goobernoratorial incumbent campaigns in this 21st Century. Bevin wanted out, plain and simple, and Miotch moved too late to replace him. Bevin wanted to give Miotch the finger by electing a Democrat governor. Bevin, to this day, needs involuntary committment.

• Brassiere has NO chance of being re-elected. Zero. None. Nada. Zip. Zero. That is why the GOP primary has -- I shit you not -- 12 dwarves signed up. Cameron wins the primary and he is the next Goobernor.

• Proof that this goobernorship flips back to the GOP -- Brassiere has visited The White Hospice twice in two years and both times went ass-in-hand beggging for a czarship when he is shit-canned on Nov. 7.

[Ponyexpress9790]

Dominion voting machines.