A lot of people in Jefferson split ticket. No one voted Democrat except for Beshear.
He was a safe protest vote.
It is a suspicious win. The winning Agriculture Commissioner got 100,000 more votes than the guy who won the Governor. How many people can even name the AG Commissioner? That said it should not have been that close. KY was down to 1 abortion mill. So the pro abortion machine got the women to make this close enough to steal. Does the GOP not care that somehow they seem to lose every close race even if it takes a few days?