Posted on 07/24/2023 8:40:13 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
A new statewide poll released this week shows Kentucky Democratic Governor Andy Beshear leading his Republican challenger Daniel Cameron.
The poll – conducted by the Republican-leaning firm Public Opinion Strategies for the Prichard Committee, an education-focused Kentucky nonprofit – shows Beshear up 10 points on Cameron with just over three months to go until the general election.
It projects Beshear capturing 52% of the vote compared to Cameron’s 42% with the incumbent having cross-party appeal.
The poll also indicated Beshear’s approval rating is 63% across the board with 38% of Republican voters and 60% of Independent voters polled approving of his performance. Among the 800 voters polled, just 35% disapprove of the job Beshear’s doing in office.
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Dan, look who runs the GOP. Look at how many spineless sellouts have control and work or support the WEF. Nobody is cheering on the democrats but the sad fact is that 95% of the elected republicans should be tar and feathered. Either they were plants from the left from the beginning or they were just morally wrong weak and caved in, in any case, the party as of now isn’t worth a damn. And that sickens most of us because there are no viable alternatives to thwart this communist takeover of America.
I understand your sentiments, Jon, but I think we are making more progress within the GOP than what you are saying. At least 70% of GOP is MAGA now, and growing. Years ago, virtually all the GOP in DC were Swamp, but now many of them are with us. Sad part of it all is that it may be too late to save this country.
Should it be won? YES
Currently holding a 75 to 25 seat supermajority in the House, Republicans knocked off five Democratic incumbents in the general election this week, giving them 80 of the 100 seats when they return for the 2023 regular session in January.
In the Senate, Republicans flipped one seat held by a retiring Democratic incumbent, with the party not fielding a candidate in the race. Currently holding 30 of the 38 seats in the Senate, the GOP supermajority in the chamber will grow to 31 in January.
So, the Governor and Lt Governor are Democrats...AG and SOS are Republican...the supermajorities are ridiculous.
Oh wait...Kentucky as 8 federal seats...all but one are Republican.
So, a state that is overwhelmingly RED picks 2 Democrats for the top 2 positions. Something tells me that if 2 or 3 urban areas were removed from the equation, Kentucky would have 1 Democrat in the US House and a Republican Governor and Lt Governor.
It sure seems like Beshear is enjoying the fruits of having no actual control over anything while at the same time getting credit for all the things that the legislature does.
Machines still being used in Ky? If so they need to keep putting out fake polls to cover up the steal.
Perhaps Trump as POTUS can appoint a very young Cameron to SCOTUS.
Let him do some time at Attorney General, with the mandate to burn it all down, no matter the consequences. His confirmation process would be interesting.
Please look at constructive criticism in a positive mannor. The GOP is in deep trouble and unless they develop a message that appeals to real Americans, rather than Country Clubbers, and Party flacks, the losses will continue. Trump and Bobby Kennedy Jr are showing the political energy needed to win. Copy that and embrace it if you want to win.
of course, the dems run all the cities, Louisville, Lexington etc...but any State wide election, President, Senator, Attn Gen, Sec of State etc, they get wiped out...except for Governor....very annoying.
Kentucky may vote Republican in federal elections, but the Dems are alive and well at the local level . That and the stench ill will left by Matt Bevin still is in recent memory.
Governor is a state wide election...bottom line is that republicans have to be voting for this guy....only possible way he wins this.
Well if those kinds of candidates actually inspired the base they would have had a massive campaign war chest to show for it. They didn’t. MAGA left its own candidates out to dry, twisting in the wind - voluntarily empowering the establishment with candidates begging McConnell to come in with his Super PAC to try to bail them out - but Super PACs should only be supplemental support - and the idea of nominating non establishment candidates was to damage the power of the establishment, wasn’t it? If you end up leaving them dependent on the establishment - you have in effect strengthened the establishment. Did it 2018, 2020, 2022, and appears again in 2023. How many tens of millions of people support Trump and MAGA? Just a small handful of them chipping in a few bucks would lead to a massive campaign war chest. The Democrats have no trouble with these small donations adding up to tens of millions of bucks per candidate - even in quixotic races where they stand little to no chance.
We have to start matching this effort or we are going to keep on losing races we should win.
We ain’t voting our way out of this mess.
this poll shows he has nearly a 40% approval rating among Republicans. It’s absurd given how ultra left wing he is. Far more than his father.
But he puts on a good “moderate” image on TV. And the extent of his far left wing agenda is hidden partially by the fact his vetoes get overridden and his polices not passed by the GOP controlled legislature.
Sitting on our behinds and keeping our wallets closed helped lead to this mess.
I mean collectively - not us on this forum.
In the end, we get the government we deserve.
“Could be that Republicans have a problem with blacks...”
Keep in mind that Kentucky has only been voting generally Republican at most levels only for about the past 25-30 years and even less than that for statewide row offices and state legislature; particularly state House, which only flipped to the GOP not even a decade ago.
Many current Republican voters were registered Democrats until even more recently than that and many others still ARE registered Dems, so they may retain vestiges of their long-held Democrat racism against blacks who have left the plantation.
so it’s the voter’s fault? Trump is enormously popular in KY but even he can’t breathe life into a stiff. Maybe you can bring McConnell in for a few rallies 🤣
The problem is the GOP base is becoming a smaller percentage of the overall voting population.
Demographics is destiny and yes it probably is too late for political solutions anyway.
Governor races are different. Hogan won in a blue Maryland. Cooper in a red leaning North Carolina.
Exactly.
I’m.one ex-Republican in Kentucky who finally left the party after 35 years in 2021 because of how RINO Mitch cold shouldered Trump. Now, I’m an Independent Conservative.
I’ll be voting for Cameron in November.
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