The Cameron vote is strong in the “West Virginia” type counties right near West Virginia but there are some rural area giving Beshear a majority.
Beshear winning two of the three suburban counties just south of Cincinnati.
surburban / urban is where is falling into a hole to dig out of - those “anti women’s health ads” probably had an impact in northern Kentucky...ridiculous that people would have believed that, but when the narrative is pounded into the minds of everyone without any ability to counter the message...the reality is that very large portions of the electorate are influenced by campaign advertising and messaging and not their own research.
If he was losing due to “racism” he would not be winning so handily in Pike County and surrounding counties close to West Virginia. Those would be the last places he would be winning...at least when it comes to supposed/alleged “conservative rural white” racism, anyway. There are certainly plenty of Leftists terrified of a black Republican winning who made extra efforts to defeat him solely because of his race.
Everyone is focusing on KY, but the GOP is doing very well in the Hampton Rhodes area of VA
Yep what I figured the white suburban republicans didn’t want the black guy