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Let's not forget that in the past fifty or so years, Kentucky has had exactly one Republican governor - Louie B. Nunn, who served in the late 60s.

I can't quite figure it out - the Commonwealth has had at least one Republican senator for as long as I can remember, presently has two, and the Congressional delegation is predominately Republican. Why the good citizenry insists on electing a Demoncrat to the Governor's Mansion is beyond me.

It's some sort of perverted (like most of Kentucky's politics) Frankfort-v/s-Washington Jeckyl and Hyde thing. Just as we mentioned per the Governor's Mansion, it should be remembered that the State House has ALWAYS been in the hands of the Democrat; it has NEVER HAD ONE DAY under GOP control. And as you may recall, a couple of years ago, the GOP took charge of the State Senate for the first time SINCE THE CIVIL WAR!

My theory is that Kentuckians seem to have a x-number-of-degrees-of-separation thing going with candidates for the State offices; it seems they always know a brother's cousin's uncle, etc, etc. who is a Democratic incumbent in Frankfort, or a Democrat otherwise on the ballot. But yet, when they get to the federal races, they suddenly mature and think to themselves, "oh yeah, THESE races matter." I only wish I knew how to explain to them how important the state races are, especially in matters relating to the local and state economies. I will conceed that most representation in the State Gov't. is very conservative socially, even a significant percentage of the Democrats, once you get out of Derby City.