posted 11-03-2015 09:39 PM                  

Republicans stole a key governor's seat in a hotly contested race in Kentucky on Tuesday, installing an outsider businessman who has drawn comparisons with Donald Trump as the state's next chief executive.

Meanwhile, neighboring Ohio voted against becoming the fifth state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.

In Kentucky, millionaire GOP investor Matt Bevin led state Attorney General Jack Conway (D), 52.5 percent to 44 percent, with 99 percent of precincts reporting. The race, perhaps the most watched in a series of lower-profile races in Tuesday's off-year elections, has been called for Bevin.

Bevin, who lost a lopsided primary to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) last year, won despite a series of missteps on the campaign trail and an unorthodox campaign that at times alienated key GOP leaders.

The relative political newcomer faced questions about his taxes and jousted repeatedly with local reporters, sometimes blacklisting them and their outlets. He traveled the state in a gold Cadillac Escalade and ran as a self-funding businessman who couldn't be bought off. For these reasons and more, he drew repeated comparisons with Trump, one of the GOP presidential front-runners.

I have no favors to pay back. There's not one person in this state who believes they are going to have a job in my administration. . . . There's not one person who I've promised anything to, he said last week at a diner, according to The Washington Post's James Hohmann . Donald Trump is an interesting fellow. . . . Part of what people appreciate about him is the very same thing. He doesn't owe anybody anything.

Republicans made every effort to nationalize the race, tying Conway to the national Democratic Party and, more specifically, to President Obama. The state is heavily Republican at the federal level, but Gov. Steve Beshear (D) has won two elections in recent years and enjoyed relatively strong approval ratings.

Also at issue was the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Bevin said that he would have rejected the federal funds, which many GOP governors have done but which polls show is an unpopular stance. Democrats pilloried him for it, hoping it would be their ticket to victory.

posted 11-03-2015 10:25 PM                  

If the Republicans win the presidency and gain more seats in the senate, we can start to take our country back.

posted 11-03-2015 11:03 PM                  

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Originally posted by Landscape Doctor:
In a nut shell,,,,people are tired of the status quo.

If the Republicans win the presidency and gain more seats in the senate, we can start to take our country back.

Build the wall,,,,, clean house,,,,, and AC can throw away his Rosetta Stone Spanish classes.

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