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In reply to the discussion: Poll: McConnell leads Grimes by 4 points [View all]Finishline42
(1,091 posts)Democrats have held the Governor's office for 40 years - with 2 exceptions. But the GOP has the State Senate (won it about 10 years ago) and is threatening to take the House. But to show you the problem, one of the Governors was a Republican growing up in Virginia. Met his wife in college there. She was from a family involved in the thoroughbred horse industry and was told - you register as a Democrat in you want any influence. And he did. Brereton Jones is his name.
We voted both times for Clinton but both times against Obama.
The poster above is correct about coal - big time factor. It beat Chandler (US Rep from the Lexington area - center Left politically) even though there are no coal mines in his district (but a lot of the voters have connections in Eastern KY).
Mitch is losing his marbles. One of the sad things about growing old.