If Bevin wins, what does this mean for Kentucky politics? With the likes of McConnell and Ryan still in the Senate, how much can they be trusted to back Bevin?
Pollsters really got it wrong:
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2015-kentucky-governor-bevin-vs-conway
How are the state senate and house doing?? Just wondering.
It’s official, folks - Matt Bevin has won the Kentucky governorship!!
Great news, KY!!! w00t!
Who is Drew Curtis? From his positions, it looks like he would take more from Conway than Bevin, is that right? If so, Bevin should send him a thank you note.
Where were these voters when he ran against McConnell?
How badly do you think McTurtle wanted Conway to win? No one will ever convince me that McConnell, Boehner and many top leaders in the Republican Party are nothing more than Democrat infiltrators whose sole purpose was to destroy the GOP from within, and they’re very close to completing their mission.
Great news and Curtis likely drew from Bevin. Plus, Curtis endorsed Trump.
I’m sure his first order of business will be to reach across the aisle in a an act of bipartisanship with the Dems. I’m sure McConnell already spelled out his expectations.
I’m not a KY resident, but am close enough to get the political ad bombardment.
Bevin’s strategy was very interesting, but, then he did get support from the Party right at the end. Or, maybe even that was planned. Conway had been consistently ahead in most polls throughout, and for many weeks was pounding Bevin in a veritable blizzard of radio & TV ads as a liar, a tax cheat, etc., with little response from Bevin. Basically Bevin ran a light ad campaign describing himself as a conservative, and Conway as an Obama disciple. Then, right at the end, Bevin ran fairly heavily a couple quite good TV ads with his wife defending him, her basically saying to Conway’s face that the accusations against Bevin were themselves lies. (Bevin’s wife is really more convincing in this mode than he is!!) Conway, whether out of arrogance or nothing to respond with, just kept running the same ads everyone was tired of hearing / seeing, and Bevin in the end blew Conway out of the water.
KY’s last pub gov., Ernie Fletcher, was generally fairly effective, given the Democratic House, but got tripped up on ethics charges (or at least clumsiness in that area.) I almost expect Andy Beshear (the former Gov’s son, and now Atty. General) to go after Bevin on anything he (Beshear) can come up with, so, Bevin really needs to walk the straight and narrow. I hope he (Bevin) can be effective...