A lot of it is just laziness. People get the call, they put on their jacket, and they go vote for the name they know. That’s what happened in Kentucky.
Kentuckians are among the most uninformed of the low information voters. They would have preferred Alben Barkley if he were still around.
A lot of it is just laziness. People get the call, they put on their jacket, and they go vote for the name they know. That’s what happened in Kentucky.
I believe the problem in Kentucky was that the conservative candidate put his foot in his mouth a few times too many. He also spoke before a cock-fighting group and pretended to not know what the group was about. If not for those two things, I believe the rival candidate would have had a chance.