re: WTF Kentucky

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There’s only been 2 republican governors in the state of Kentucky the last 50 years. Governor is usually a center Dem. Everything else is usually very Red

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I remember when Kentucky elected Martha Layne Collins as governor. It went pretty badly over the next four years and people openly said they'd never have another woman as governor of Kentucky ever again!

Louisville, Lexington, and Covington-Newport are the heavily blue areas of the state and have enough population to pretty much control how a gubernatorial race turns out. Eastern Kentucky (coal mines and Appalachian foothills) still leans a good bit toward the Dems. UMW union has a good bit to do with that.

On the whole, Democrats holding state and local offices do no necessarily toe the DNC party line across the board. I have a very good friend who is a Democrat and a circuit court judge in eastern KY. While he is registered as a Democrat, his political ideology is far, far removed from the leftist ideologies of the DNC. Beshear, however, is more closely aligned with the DNC but has yet to go full-tilt leftist.