The Kentucky Gubernatorial Primary Ends and We’re Trying for Revolution

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Ricochet: The Kentucky Gubernatorial Primary Ends and We’re Trying for Revolution

Sabrdance May 30, 20155COMMENTS

 

So here in Kentucky we had a realbarnburner of a primary. I mean that somewhat literally. There’s an old joke we often attribute to Mark Twain–that when the world ends, the best place to be is in Kentucky, because everything happens here 20 years later.

 

Well, the rest of the South went Republican in 1996. Here we are, 20 years later, and Kentucky was going to flip–we’d take the House and the Governor’s mansion–and then this happened.

 

First, a few things you should know about Kentucky. For starters, we aren’t a Republican state. Yeah, the senators are Republicans, and 5 of the 6 Representatives are Republicans, but at the state level everything is Democrats. The executive branch is 4:1 Democrats.