Kentucky is considered a border state. To a large extent, it is conservative and Republican. In 2008, McCain easily won Kentucky. Obama managed to win the Louisville area and some swaths of real estate along the northern border and some territory east of Frankfort. He can kiss that area good-bye this year. The key word in Kentucky, as in the next entry tomorrow, is coal! | Read More »
There is a lot riding on redistricting in Kentucky, most of it centered around the Lexington-based 6th District held by Democratic incumbent Ben Chandler. However, unlike its neighbor to the south, there will be interest in other districts also. Some of it will manifest itself in 2012 while others will occur later in the decade since Democrats feel they have a stable of good candidates | Read More »
In the Bluegrass State, the big story is the ascendancy of Rand Paul in the Republican Party. He was perhaps one of the first Senate candidates to be supported by the TEA Party to go up against a party establishment nominee in the primaries. Backed by the national GOP, the state GOP apparatus and most importantly, Mitch McConnell, Trey Grayson, the state’s Secretary of | Read More »
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