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    Gouverneurswahl in Kentucky 2023 nach Bezirk


    Gouverneurswahl in Kentucky 2023 nach Bezirk

    Von IllustriousDudeIDK

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    1. IllustriousDudeIDK on

      Beshear did well in the cities and traditionally Democratic coalfields in Eastern Kentucky and parts of the Bluegrass region, but it still didn’t match his dad’s performance in 2007 and 2011, when he won in a landslide and most of the traditional Democratic counties in the Bluegrass region and in the west of the state.

      [Map source and credit to Matthew Isbell](https://mcimaps.substack.com/p/issue-140-precinct-maps-from-kentucky)

      [Here’s the voter registration by party in Nov 2023 for reference ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/5/53/20231201222248%21Kentucky_voter_registration_map_by_county.svg)

    2. Averagecrabenjoyer69 on

      Beshear’s governing style is different than his daddy Steve Beahear who was a pretty old school conservative Southern Democrat. However Andy is perceived as a non offensive moderate not rocking the boat type, and his reaction to the tornado in West KY and the floods of Eastern KY were seen as positive. Kentucky is a former Solid South Democratic state that used to split ticket a lot like the rest of the South, but still does more so than other Southern states.

    3. Silver_County7374 on

      Kentucky politics is fascinating. There are counties in Eastern Kentucky that voted 70+% for Trump, but where every local official is a Democrat, and where no Republican has won local office since Reconstruction. Then there are counties in Southern Kentucky that have never voted for a Democrat for anything, ever, at any level of government.

      Remember Kim Davis, the clerk who went to jail for refusing to sign off on gay marriages? She was serving as a Democrat when that happened. Most rural counties in Eastern Kentucky haven’t seen a single Republican even run for local office since Reconstruction, even in the hyper-partisan era of Trump.

    4. Windsock2080 on

      Although its generally rural vs urban, there is obvious differences of opinions that are more complex across the state.

      It means a lot that the area surrounding Pikeville is so much more blue than the area around Bowling Green. 

    5. fokkinfumin on

      Can someone from Kentucky explain why Andy Beshear is so popular there? Is it the name recognition? Usually, Democratic governors in Southern red states have to lean conservative to get elected (John Bel Edwards, Ronnie Musgrove, etc.) but Beshear basically seems to have pretty mainstream liberal views

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