“What do you base that on? The whitest areas voted for Cameron.”
I base that on facts as opposed to emotional wailing, and “the whitest areas voted for Cameron” is NOT a fact.
Bath County: 95% white, Cameron lost. Trump won it twice by heavy margins.
Boyd County: 93% white, Cameron lost. Trump won it twice by solid margins.
Breathitt County: 96% white, Cameron lost. Same Trump comment as the others.
Campbell County: 92% white, Cameron lost. Trump won here in 2020 by almost 20 points.
Floyd County: 97% white, Cameron lost. Trump got 75%.
Knott County: 97% white, Cameron lost. Trump got over 75%.
Letcher County: 97% white, Cameron lost. Trump got almost 80%.
See a pattern yet?
Magoffin, Nelson, Nicholas, Perry, Powell, Rowan, Wolfe.
All fit exactly the same description as the others.
Cameron got elected A.G. in the 2019 downballot statewide sweep in Kentucky. Maybe, just maybe, voters are a tiny bit more aware of who the candidates are for Governor than they are for races like A.G., Comptroller, Dog Catcher, Prothonotary or whatever.
When black candidates run as Republicans in HIGH PROFILE races in marginal states — and sometimes even supposedly solid GOP states like Kentucky — they lose way more often than they win.
That doesn’t mean the GOP shouldn’t run — or support — a black candidate if he is the best option available. WE may support the guy but clearly a decisive proportion of those lily-white voters did not. Maybe they had other reasons, but lying about Cameron’s wonderful (but actually non-existent) landslide among white voters isn’t helpful.
See a pattern yet? You showed absolutely no pattern at all. You were comparing the Presential race vs. how those counties typically vote in gubernatorial races. The same disparagement in vote numbers can be found with any typical gubernatorial race with an "all white" cast. I already accounted for the "yellow dog" areas...you only read a portion of what I wrote and responded to it.
2007 Beshear vs. Fletcher
2011 Beshear vs. Williams
2015 Conway vs. Bevin
2019 Beshear vs. Bevin
2023 Beshear vs. Cameron
Here's your actual pattern. Nothing more than the fact Beshear vastly outraised and outspent Cameron and Beshear had an approval rating in the 60s...his approval rating was quite undeserved, but he controlled the narrative and never had to really answer for any of his ultra leftist behavior and governing philosophy, and was able to pain Cameron as a crazy extremist that didn't care if children were raped...as outlandish as such claims are, they start to sour what people may think of you subconsciously if it is continually said without refutation, even among base voters.