Posted on 11/05/2019 6:47:34 PM PST by conservative98
Tate Reeves (R) has been ahead all night.
Good point, but it’s actually two different guys. The prior governor was Steve Beshear. This candidate is his son Andy.
Maybe so, but his approval rating was very low. For whatever reason, a lot of people who otherwise voted Republican tonight (or voted Republican in 2016) voted for Beshear today, or didn’t vote at all in that race.
One word..... Coal.
The unions in KY want a stranglehold on their 1.) Exhorbitant pension schemes, especially Am. Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) 2)the Kentucky Teachers Assn-closely allied with the WV striking teachers at the time/
3) the toll road crap in Ky is a major embarrassment. The tolls benefit exactly whom? Not the democrap “working man” routine in their propaganda. Fiefdoms— democrap fiefdoms, but somehow they dodge the exposure.
If the incumbent Gov was “a total prick” and originally a never Trumper....why would Trump go there and stump for him specifically? Seems very, very risky politically.
Didn't help that the LOSERTARIAN third party guy probably siphoned a lot of votes from Bevin.
We gotta do better at getting out the vote. The Dems are so damn good at it that even dead people vote.
So now its our chance, GIVE TRUMP A LANDSLIDE VICTORY
I would not trust anything that came out of Jefferson Co. I live 100 miles from there and have never met a single person from Louisville that was not a con man or a loser. It is about like Jacksonville Florida. A magnet for anything in the Commonwealth that stinks.
Stunning?....Nope!
Demon-rats always win close elections.
Kentucky has no toll roads, just three toll bridges connecting Louisville and southern Indiana.
Four reasons Bevin lost:(1) He is a Yankee in the most Southern of the border states;(2) voter fraud in Louisville; (3) the Democrat was not a bomb throwing AOC type but the son of a former governor; (4) he angered constituents by supporting toll bridges in one of only two states that EVER abolished their toll roads. All in all, the Republicans swept the other statewide offices. So the Bluegrass State was an overall win. My concern is with the conversion of Virginia into South Maryland.
Upset? Really, the governor was not popular and he lost by .4%? The Republicans in Kentucky won statewide!!
When were they converted to non-toll?
First time I have visited the “538” website. I have used Real Clear Politics for almost 20 years.
However, I did notice that 538 gave the +19 Beshear pollster a “C/D” accuracy rating, which is their lowest rating.
RCP does not list the +19 Beshear poll, which probably means that pollster has been banned from RCP.
In my (limited) dealings with “libertarians”, I get the impression they are white liberals turned off the Democrat’s racial policies; none would ever be termed “social conservative” (though that type existed a couple of decades ago). Now it seems they focus on legalizing pot and keeping abortion legal.
The last two parkways’ tolls were removed in 2006. One turnpike’s toll came off as far back as as 1975. The remaining 6 or 7 parkways removed tolls between 1986 and 2003. Kentucky law requires toll removal once the construction bonds are retired.
Good— now there’s a reason to try to travel through KY and see things and visit friends. The toll roads were a major hindrance for a lot of people. All the atlas’s the old ones show almost every major highway a toll road.
Always thought it was to keep the poor folks stuck in their coal company shacks. What a state. Glad to hear they are gone.
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