Kentucky Democrats hold State House seat in special election.

[RandySF]

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[UTUSN]

1. K&R

[lastlib]

36. I hope this bodes well for Amy McGrath and our Presidential candidate!

[phandancer917]

37. DITCH MITCH!!

This is a SURPRISINGLY common bumpersticker in Central KY


Gives me HOPE!

[guillaumeb]

2. Recommended.

[bluestarone]

3. AWESOME!!

clap: :

[Progressive dog]

4. Great

[mcar]

5. Excellent!

[msongs]

6. good news nt

[Meadowoak]

7. And us KY Democrats are going to beat Moscow Mitch in Nov.

[Dave in VA]

10. Please!

n/t

[FM123]

12. Yes please!

We are rooting for you!

[Wounded Bear]

13. Your keyboard to god's ears...nt

[OAITW r.2.0]

30. Encouraging sign gere.

Motivated Dems and Inds against a very unenthusiastic base to turn out for Mitch. Those former Mitch fans probably want the Democrat to win in their districts to deal with their situation. All those Democratic bills that Mitch won't bring to vote are hurting them and us.

Know what un-employed coal miners need? Not coding jobs. Decentralized energy installation and maintenance.

[phandancer917]

38. YES WE WILL!!!!!!!

Elected Beshear for Gov and now this seat turns Blue....

KY is changing, slowly, but is changing.

[Mme. Defarge]

8. Outstanding!

[shenmue]

9. Praise be to Ceiling Doggo

[BlancheSplanchnik]

39. 🥰

Praise the Pawed!

[pandr32]

11. Yaaaaaasssssss!

[MFGsunny]

14. Lordy, let this be the beginning of a beautiful election 2020 trend!

CONGRATULATIONS! and more blue power to the BLUEgrass state!

[Blue_true]

15. That is good news and good tidings. Mitch should have chills running down his back. nt

[Demovictory9]

16. kick

[peggysue2]

17. Well, if this was, in fact, a bellwether race?

This is spectacular news.

[budkin]

18. YES!!!

Great to hear!

[llmart]

19. I hope this is a harbinger of things to come for Kentucky.

We can't get rid of the Turtle soon enough to suit me. He's done nothing but divide and stonewall. He is about as unpatriotic as it gets and cares nothing about this country.

Please, Kentucky. Do yourselves a favor. Give McConnell his walking papers. He could care less about the citizens of Kentucky.

[yellowdogintexas]

20. Congratulations, KY First Andy Beshear and now this!

Proud of my home state!!!

and as I always say: "KY you have ONE job in November - Ditch #MoscowMitch "

[Hermit-The-Prog]

21. Step by step, Kentucky, step by step: BLUEgrass state.

[Stonepounder]

22. That's just one District east of where I live.

The last time I was at our County Fair I stopped by the Democrat tent. We have more registered Dem voters than Repugs. Now we need to do is GOTV!

[Chipper Chat]

23. Has Matt Bevin asked for a recount yet?

[RandySF]

25. The district went from blue to red.

[RhodeIslandOne]

27. Probably because they ran a pro-life conservative "Democrat"

I bet the guy said he'd vote for Trump too.

[RandySF]

28. You should look before making such assumptions

[RhodeIslandOne]

29. The post itself said they were.

A special election was held tonight to replace Democrat Representative Rocky Adkins in the KY House 99. This district had been a bedrock Democratic district for decades. Rocky Adkins won it in 2016 by 20+ points even as Trump was winning KY by 30+ points. The Democratic candidate in the special election had to run against a Republican who hammered him as Sanders socialist because he was a Democrat. Nothing was further from the truth as he was a pro-life conservative. However, he was defeated by about 15%. The lesson for all of us is that it is true that down-ballot Democrats will have a difficult time winning in districts that are not liberal because they will branded as a Sanders socialist. KY House 99 has served a bellwether for the danger of a Sanders nomination.

[grantcart]

34. McSally is running constant "Kelly is a socialist" adds because he said he would support Sanders if

he was nominated.

The race has gone from possibly Kelly to likely McSally.

If Sanders is the nominee we have no chance.

[RhodeIslandOne]

40. This is a never ending cycle.

Obama is a socialist.

Clinton is a socialist.

Biden is a socialist.

It's unfortunate liars are allowed to run for office, and the duped are allowed to vote.

And by the way, even Republican RCP isn't saying "likely McSally". Stop.

One more reminder. KY is a state where the Democratic nominee for Senate against the republican Senate leader wouldn't admit she voted for Obama. Nevermind socialism. Can't. Admit. To. Being. A. Democrat. Wow.

I am not for Bernie. But I AM SICK AND FUCKING TIRED OF BEING TOLD I CAN'T BE A PROUD DEMOCRAT!!!!!!!

[grantcart]

41. Obama, Clinton, Biden never identified as a Socialist

Bernie Sanders "I am a Socialist and everyone knows that"

You, Me, Clinton, Biden and Obama are proud Democrats.

Sanders is a proud Socialist who is a temporary visitor to the Democratic Party who is running on a) massive wealth transfer b) middle class tax increase.

McGovern ran on wealth transfer and won 1 state

Mondale ran on a middle class tax increase and one state.

In Arizona the Democratic Establishment has worked hard to turn AZ from 2 Rep. Senators to 2 Dem Senators. We won the last election by 3%. We have a chance of winning the state for both the electoral college and the Senate with anyone but Sanders on the ticket

Democrats in deep blue states have no idea how much work a Sanders candidacy will cause. Sanders doesn't care because he is running against the Democratic establishment


Republican PACS had, in fact, written McSally off and not allocated funds to support her as Kelly has a substantial fund raising advantage and McSally has a hard ceiling. They now rate it likely McSally and pouring millions into media.

BTW The Republican Senate campaign today has moved beyond the 4 swing states and identified 3 Democratic Senators that were considered safe but now think that they can win by linking them with a proud Socialist party leader.

[RhodeIslandOne]

42. This isn't even relevant to the original race this thread is about

Apparently his opponent linked him to Hillary and that was enough.

We’re done here.

[Me.]

26. How About This Then

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287583329

[lagomorph777]

31. Excellent.

Any chance we can get rid of the Turtle?

[Mersky]

32. Good!

[OliverQ]

33. This is great news, but we did also

lose a KY seat in that special election. It was a tough one to hold unfortunately.

[onetexan]

35. Excellent! K&R