Subj : Re: Ride the Red Wave?
To   : AARON THOMAS
From : Mike Powell
Date : Thu Nov 09 2023 09:00:00

>  MP> If yesterday's elections are any indication, the Red Wave still isn't
>  MP> happening.  Here in Kentucky, the Democrat incumbent beat the
>  MP> Trump-endorsed Republican challenger and current AG in the governor's
>  MP> race. Despite what any polls might, or might not, have indicated, I was
>  MP> not surprised.

> I'm sorry to hear about that. Welcome to the club. (It sucks!)

Honestly, I was not that disappointed.  The current governor has dome some
things I did not like but his challenger, while being a good AG, campaigned
on some things I thought were a little too extreme right for me to really
get behind.

I wish he'd just have run for AG again.  OTOH, the Republicans swept the
other statewide races, like Secretary of State which is the one I was more
concerned about.

>  MP> Based on what I am reading this morning, that was the trend in most of
>  MP> the country.  Trump-endorsed candidates again did poorly.

> Trump realizes that campaigning hard is a good idea, when it's his campaign. B
>  he's endorsed a few lazy candidates who don't take campaigning as serious as
> ump does.

Cameron campaigned.  I think campaigning too far right did him in.

An example, his going after the current governor for closing down churches
during the COVID lockdown may have played well to Christians who'd never
vote for Bashear anyway, but most of the ones I know were fine attending
drive-in and remote services and believed it was the right call.  They
believed that it was low blow to bring that up as part of his campaign.


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