THIS ONE is dedicated to my friends Michelle and David
Zornes!
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Matt Bevin easily won Kentucky’s governorship on Tuesday...
(*STANDING OVATION*)
* FOLKS... BEVIN IS THE GUY WHO TRIED TO END SCUMBAG
EXTRAORINAIRE MITCH MCCONNELL'S REIGN OF ERROR!
* GO, MATT, GO!
Polls prior to the vote showed a close race, with most
surveys giving Conway, the state's sitting attorney general, a slight
advantage.
* UH-HUH...
(*SMIRK*)
Bevin, a self-funding investment manager, rode a late
surge of outside support from national Republicans to defeat Democrat Jack
Conway, 53 percent to 44 percent, according to The Associated Press.
* NICE ATTEMPT TO DISTRACT WITH THAT "SELF-FUNDING
INVESTMENT MANAGER" AND "OUTSIDE SUPPORT" MEME, BUT, IT'S THE
9-POINT VICTORY MARGIN COMPARED TO THE "POLLING DATA" BLURB ABOVE
WHICH IS THE TRUE "STORY WITHIN THE STORY."
(*SMUG NOD*)
Polls prior to the vote showed a close race, with most
surveys giving Conway, the state's sitting (Democrat) attorney general, a
slight advantage.
* AND APPARENTLY THE POLLS WERE... WRONG.
Bevin was outspent for most of the contest and had his
tactics consistently questioned by his fellow Republicans. But a late $2.5
million spending blitz from the Republican Governors Association helped Bevin
close the gap in television advertising in the final weeks.
* INTERESTING...
(*PENSIVE NOD*)
As recently as mid-October, national Republicans were not
spending money in the contest — his team insisted throughout the race that its
candidate's ideological leanings on everything from abortion rights to
ObamaCare to school choice were more in line with Kentucky voters and would
allow them to survive a huge monetary disadvantage.
* OF COURSE THE RINOs WOULD SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATS BY
ATTACKING BEVIN. GOOD FOR THE RGA FOR TAKING A STAND IN OPPOSITION TO THE
WASHINGTON GOP POWER BROKERS!
Even with the late help from the RGA, Democrats outspent
Republicans in the contest, $8.75 million to $5.5 million.
* GO, BEVIN, GO!
* GO, KENTUCKY, GO!
Even late in the race, when Conway's campaign was airing
purely negative ads, Bevin's campaign mostly focused on "contrast"
spots, mixing attacks on Conway with positive biographical information about
Bevin, noting he was a "Christian conservative" who served in the
military. They repeatedly said he was an "outsider businessman"
running against Conway, a "career politician" and insider.
"Jack Conway is spending millions lying about me.
It’s all he’s got," Bevin said in his closing argument ad. "That’s
because Conway is a career politician who supports Obama’s agenda."
* GOTTA LUV HOW POLITICO WAITED TILL PARAGRAPH 14 TO
WRITE "...CONWAY'S CAMPAIGN WAS AIRING PURELY NEGATIVE ADS.."
(*SNORT*)
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