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Who cares?


It doesn't seem to matter to any of them.

Ah, go have an Irish coffee and chill. Put me in charge and in 10 years I could get half the Mescans and 1/3 of the Brothers and Sistas voting GOP. Just need some spokes people with charisma to court them. Tell the Mescans that the Dems are cut from the same cloth as the corrupt politicians they fled from. Point out who is for abortion, more taxes, class envy, inconsistent application of the law and contrast that to the GOP that offers the opportunity for upward social and economic mobility. Remind them who hates religion. You got to preach it to them loud and often. Same with the Brothers. Many are ready to bolt the Dems. Trump has brought them record low unemployment and certainly has done little block economic advancement for that group. How about Asians including the Indians? The Chinese and Koreans fled that communist stuff, so easy to get them voting GOP. Dot heads are all about self reliance.

Only block I couldn't convert is the college educated white urban dwellers. They are too busy dining out at some celebrity chefs restaurant and planing their mountain bike trip to Moab to listen. Then they have their sister's destination wedding in Ho Chi Minh City or Tuscany to plan for.

The two big cities, Lexington and Louisville, elect the democrats in this state. If not for the votes in those two counties, we'd have Republican Governors every term.

A few things we need to know.

1.) How much money did the DNC pour into this election?
2.) How much out of state money was used
3.) What issues did the DNC try to go negative on Bevin on and how hard did they push it?

The Dems are desparate for ANY victory, and have shown that they will pour massive money into some elections just get a victory. We saw the Dems spend $30 million dollars losing a special election in a $3 million race. They doubled down and won the District a year later, but spent $50 million dollars to do it whereas the GOP spent $10 million. The Dems "bought" many of those abandoned GOP seats they took in the House. More money in the race gave them more ad time, social media time, and more face time in town hall events. When there is no name recognition, they built it fast.

Did they pull an Alinisky on Bevin? Isolate, polarize, ridicule, then offer their guy as clean no name?

It matters to a lot of them. Look at the election map.

https://www.politico.com/election-results/2019/kentucky/

Personally I didn't see a huge amount of campaigning for Beshear. At least not in south central KY, which is a Republican enclave anyway, so that might explain why I didn't see much.

I think a whole lot of people in KY held their noses and voted for Beshear. This was more of an anti-Bevin referendum than anything else. Party affiliation was secondary.

They need to drop pensions. Move to defined contribution plans.

Folk won’t like it.

It ain’t just the teachers, though they are easy to point at for some of the reasons you mentioned. It’s public employee pensions in general.

Something has to give, or someone robbed.

...There were 42,769 teachers in the public schools, or roughly one teacher for every 16 students, equal to the national average. There was roughly one administrator for every 209 students, compared to the national average of one administrator for every 295 students

State and Local Government EmploymentTotal

Total Full-Time Employees: 228,171

State: 72,416
Local: 155,755

Full-Time Employee Pay: $695,218,139

State: 261,314,705
Local: 433,903,434

It’ll just get spent elsewhere and pensions will still be a cancer on the tax payers.

It’s already been done all across the country.