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Actually,...it's a damn wonder that Matt Bevin ever got elected in the first place. Kentucky is a very conservative place. But it's got a cancer of people who don't understand that the democratic party no longer represents them.
Like I said,...they think it's 1935. Its that "my daddy voted democrat and his daddy voted democrat" attitude that still prevails. Folks need to wake the f u ck up.
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It's just a situation where the big urban centers vote left in Kentucky. The same situation exists all over the country. Kentucky is a small state,...4.6 million,,...and a million of those live in Lexington and Louisville.
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It's just a situation where the big urban centers vote left in Kentucky. The same situation exists all over the country. Kentucky is a small state,...4.6 million,,...and a million of those live in Lexington and Louisville. Much like Virginia, which turned full on Blue yesterday[even though all of my state and national reps are Republicans] Looking like a move to greener red pastures is coming sooner than initially expected.
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This kinda sucks...I am going to Kentucky this Friday to look for land...
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It's just a situation where the big urban centers vote left in Kentucky. The same situation exists all over the country. Kentucky is a small state,...4.6 million,,...and a million of those live in Lexington and Louisville. Much like Virginia, which turned full on Blue yesterday[even though all of my state and national reps are Republicans] Looking like a move to greener red pastures is coming sooner than initially expected. Has the term “Right Flight” been coined yet? It is definitely happening.
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Thy still haven't figured out that democrats are lairs and thieves. Look at california. Look at Colorado democrats are destroying the cities and the hunting.
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It's just a situation where the big urban centers vote left in Kentucky. The same situation exists all over the country. Kentucky is a small state,...4.6 million,,...and a million of those live in Lexington and Louisville. Yep. Those enclaves where the dynamic has been slow to develop are starting to see the same results as the rest of us. I figure Oklahoma will be the last hold out. Just depends how long they can keep out “Texans” after they turn blue.
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3rd party candidate cost the R's this election.
Again.
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Then STFU. The rest of your statement is superflous bullshit with no real bearing on this discussion other than to massage your own ego. Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me.
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3rd party candidate cost the R's this election.
Again. Anymore I think it’s the left funding these 3rd party candidates. They know from historical data, 3rd party candidates pull votes from the republican candidate.
Then STFU. The rest of your statement is superflous bullshit with no real bearing on this discussion other than to massage your own ego. Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me.
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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.
Beshear's "plan" is to raise money through gambling,...which means that he doesn't have a plan. Kentucky state run lottery games began back in 1989 when all state government level offices were held by Democrats and touted then as a big boon for state budgets, especially, "it's for the kids", education.
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I have seen 3 Republican governors in my lifetime in this state...Nunn, Fletcher, and Bevin and none of them could win re-election. I don't know if this is any indication of what Trump will experience or not in 2020, but it could be. Bevin did a good job, trying to straighten out a mess, but he hurt himself a lot by not knowing how to handle the criticism.......just like Trump. The telling thing here is that every other Republican won their state office, meaning that a lot of GOP voters did not vote for Bevin. The trouble with electing a businessman as governor or President, is that are not dealing with other businessmen, but other politicians, who only see things one way......the political way.
I really thought Bevin would win, just as thought our county would reject the nickel increase in property tax, and I was wrong on both accounts. Donald Trump will have to earn every last vote he gets. Our biggest enemy is election fraud and socialism. Everyone wants something for nothing and the democrats have a history of cheating. This election is not over yet. It's a long ways from over. kwg
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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.
Beshear's "plan" is to raise money through gambling,...which means that he doesn't have a plan. Kentucky state run lottery games began back in 1989 when all state government level offices were held by Democrats and touted then as a big boon for state budgets, especially, "it's for the kids", education. from what i have been told ,but dont know how true .That lotto money they started getting in 1989 was not extra money to pay for the schools ,what ever they got off of the lotto to pay on schools ,they just reduced the same amount of tax dollors they were paying on the schools ,and using that tax money for other things than the school and kids ,so just wound up with same amout of money spent ,but coming out of different pocket ,so it was explained to me
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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. Here in southwest Kentucky, I'll be willing to bet that 90% of the campaigning I saw and heard was for Bevin, which suggests that he knew he was in trouble. I didn't want to believe it, as I honestly thought he'd win by around 5 percentage points. Most of his ads were very negative towards Beshear, and focused mostly on two things.........illegal immigrants and abortion. I see it like this.........there just isn't really a problem here with illegals, at least in rural Kentucky, and let's just be honest.....most people don't care about abortion. I think had Bevin focused more on what he has accomplished, and what he hoped to accomplish in a second term, it might have helped him......with the key word being "might." His aggressive businessman approach just didn't go over well in this state.
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3rd party candidate cost the R's this election.
Again. Anymore I think it’s the left funding these 3rd party candidates. They know from historical data, 3rd party candidates pull votes from the republican candidate. But Hillary said...........
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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.
Beshear's "plan" is to raise money through gambling,...which means that he doesn't have a plan. Kentucky state run lottery games began back in 1989 when all state government level offices were held by Democrats and touted then as a big boon for state budgets, especially, "it's for the kids", education. from what i have been told ,but dont know how true .That lotto money they started getting in 1989 was not extra money to pay for the schools ,what ever they got off of the lotto to pay on schools ,they just reduced the same amount of tax dollors they were paying on the schools ,and using that tax money for other things than the school and kids ,so just wound up with same amout of money spent ,but coming out of different pocket ,so it was explained to me I don't doubt it's true but I do remember very well that the education funding part was played up in a big way to the public. There wasn't a worldwide web back then for folks to do any in depth research as to breakdown of how much and where lottery revenues got distributed, either. Now, 30 years later, the state lottery and scratch-off ticket sales have grown huge with scratch-off tickets priced at up to $20 each but the state's budget deficit continue to deepen even beyond.
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From my other post on the subject: The sooner we all come to the realization the republic is lost, the sooner you can make plans to hunker down and hopefully live the rest of your days without the government taking all your assets to pay off the great unwashed, which constitutes AT LEAST 50% of the population. Virginia is now gone as well, as is California and Arizona, all three were pretty much R states. Texas is next... Look at this map, Looks like a microcosm of the entire US , yet the R still lost. Why? because between the immigrant invasion and democrats, they are outfucking us. period, [img] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIp85vWUUAAvgNg?format=jpg&name=small[/img] 0
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Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s (R) reelection campaign is officially requesting a recanvas in Tuesday night’s gubernatorial election after polls showed him trailing Democrat Andy Beshear by less than .5 percent.
“The people of Kentucky deserve a fair and honest election. With reports of irregularities, we are exercising the right to ensure that every lawful vote was counted,” Bevin Campaign Manager Davis Paine said in a statement.
The statement comes after a nail-biter election in Kentucky in which Beshear edged out Bevin by roughly 5,000 votes with 99 percent of precincts reporting.
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Let's not get too gloomy over KY right now. There is still the traditional FDR Democrat mentality deeply rooted in the coal states that don't take aversion to a moderate talking local Democrat. As pointed out, some of these states switch Parties in the gubenatorial chair regularly. Got ask "how strong a candidate was Bevins?" "How strong was his opponent and how did the Dems present him?"? Was this a campaign of "Bevins + bad but our guy that you don't know = Good?"
Was this an election where the voters of KY threw Bevins out, or did Bevins and the GOP get out campaigned and outspent?
Those are questions I'm looking to answer and will tell us more.
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