[silverleaf]

As if the pattern of the votes where 100,000 voters went for GOP minor offices but did not vote for governor was “ typical”

[TBall]

I think there was a libertarian candidate that took a lot of votes.

[HamiltonJay]

It is TYPICAL when the Governor is as unpopular s Bevin is...

You do realize he was down 17 points just a few weeks ago, its a miracle, and a statement to TRUMP’s ability to get votes that he got within a few thousand votes.

You aren’t making up 5k votes with fraud allegations folks... Bevin lost... He was behind the entire race... he angered and disenfranchised too many voters.

Nothing more complicated or nefarious than that.

[MNJohnnie]

Given how unpopular Bevin was yes.

This is exactly the same argument Gore made in Fl in 2000. It was wrong then, it is wrong now.

[Lurking Libertarian]

As if the pattern of the votes where 100,000 voters went for GOP minor offices but did not vote for governor was “ typical”

(a) Bevin was uniquely unpopular in Kentucky

(b) There was a Libertarian candidate for Governor who got way more votes than the margin between Bevin and Bashear

(c) If the Dems were going to cheat, why wouldn't they cheat all across the board?

[Alberta's Child]

From what I've seen, the guy sure didn't conduct himself in office like someone who was interested in being re-elected.

I'd say the Ohio-Kentucky toll bridge issue destroyed his campaign. He might have survived if the toll itself was the only issue, but he came out publicly in support of the toll just weeks before the election after promising in 2016 to sign a state bill that prohibited such a toll.

This is what is known in politics as an amateur, tone-deaf move.

[gibsonguy]

Exactly, we are to believe the Agriculture commissioner got 100’000 more votes then the guy who defeated an incumbent Governor. How many people can even name the AG?

[Zhang Fei]

[As if the pattern of the votes where 100,000 voters went for GOP minor offices but did not vote for governor was “ typical”]

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It’s typical for political candidates with the reverse Midas touch. In 2012, Roy Moore under-performed Romney by ~20%, despite being on the same ballot in Alabama. Bevin approved a toll road in the closing weeks of the election. This guy had a political death wish, and it appears to have been granted. Now, from a money standpoint, the guy needs the job like he needs a hole in the head. But if he wasn’t going to mount a credible run, he should have bowed out of the primary.

[Republican Wildcat]

Given the things he has said including just before the election calling for tolls on bridges in northern Kentucky, yes, that is not a surprise that many people would not have voted for him that typically would have voted Republican. Those northern Kentucky counties are colored blue on the election map - they are a Republican stronghold. He would have won them by ten points at least - instead, he lost them by ten points, while the other Republicans won them handily. Had he not made those comments, it would have almost certainly been just enough for him to win. He drove the final nail in his own coffin, after turning many others against him by claiming the rallies teachers groups were holding in Frankfort would cause child molestation and that they caused a child to be shot and killed in another instance. Beshear didn’t defeat him - Bevin defeated himself. The fact that this electorate was ultra pro-Republican that turned out is the only reason he did not lose by 15 or more points.