Posted by Tina
This news should have our friend Dewey rattling around in his boots. I can’t wait to read the invective!
Matt Bevin was down in the polls. He didn’t have a prayer. The polls were wrong. Breitbart heralds the great news:
Although Kentucky has been a reliable Republican state in Presidential elections, Democrats have had something of a lock on the Governor’s mansion. Republicans have only held the state’s highest office for four of the last 44 years. Bevin’s win also completes a Republican sweep of Governor’s races in Southern states.
Bevin’s victory (53%-44%) is something of a comeback for the Republican. An outsider to politics, Bevin was a Tea Party favorite who challenged Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in a primary in 2014. Bevin lost that race but won a contested primary for the Governor’s office earlier this year. In that primary, Bevin overcame two well-funded opponents with deep ties to the state’s Republican establishment.
The early call in the race by the Associated Press indicates that the election was not as close as polls had suggested. The last poll in the race, the Herald-Leader Bluegrass Poll, put Conway up by 5 points. Bevin’s solid win was powered by a strong Republican turnout in the state.
In the closing days of the campaign, the debate over ObamaCare took center stage again. The state’s co-op providing health insurance to ObamaCare recipients went bankrupt, throwing 500,000 individuals off their insurance plans. The state’s co-op had been propped up by federal ObamaCare grants.
The establishment Republicans will rue the day they dismissed the Tea Party as a fringe group. The people who support Tea party groups are the heart and soul of America and the American values of freedom and personal responsibility.