Warnings signs for both parties in state and local elections

He was voted in Tuesday, November 3, thus breaking up the hold Democrats have had on the office in all but one election since 1971. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has to go, and she has to take her approach to building the party with her. How many times does Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy have to be vindicated before the Democratic Party admits that he was right, and that Rahm Emanuel (and DWS) were wrong?

The trend toward Republicans, which began in 2010 and continues strongly, sounds good for the GOP, period. Bevin, who was supported by the Tea Party, beat out State Attorney General Jack Conway, who had lead in the polls in October.

Party leaders are skeptical that outsiders’ rebellious appeal will be sufficiently deep and lasting to send such a candidate to the White House. “But we’ve been here before and we always get up and come back and win”.

To be sure, off-year elections are imperfect predictors of presidential contests.

For Democrats, results in Kentucky, Virginia and elsewhere were part of a troubling pattern. The 48-year-old investment manager has never held public office. Money flowed into the races from a pro-gun control group backed by New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg, which spent .2 million, and substantial spending by Americans for Prosperity, the National Rifle Association and Republican State Leadership Committee.

The AP fails to mention that the Obama administration has been a disaster for the Democratic Party. It’s also raising questions about where Democrats will draw their next generation of leaders. If the GOP wins, a new Republican president might try to expand Kentucky’s effort.

The Democratic defeats have implications for policies as well as politics. He also feels the move from the state exchange will “ensure continued access to health care coverage, while saving Kentucky taxpayers millions in state tax dollars”. Republican Ryan Quarles took out Democrat Jean-Marie Lawson Spann in the Agriculture Commissioner’s race, 60-percent to 40-percent. Bevin defeated Democrat Jack Conway to become only the second Republican governor in the state in four decades.

The Bluegrass Institute, Kentucky’s first and only free-market think tank, congratulated Matt Bevin on his victory in Tuesday’s gubernatorial election and stated its support for his principled platform that will bring new ideas and common-sense solutions to the serious problems facing our commonwealth.

The elimination of the kynect program is just one of an assortment of conservative policies Bevin will seek to impose as governor.

Nevertheless, a few Kentucky voters who benefited from the Medicare expansion voted against the candidate who wanted to keep it as it is-outgoing Gov. Steve Beshear, a Democrat. “There is something happening”. The Fiscal Office expressed concern that because DSH payments to hospitals are included in the legislation, “savings associated with Medicaid Expansion are likely to be diminished significantly”.

Matt Bevin, the businessman and government outsider who attempted to dethrone Sen.

“That’s the same thing I ran on when I ran in 2010”, Paul said of his Senate victory five years ago. Who and what won and lost? House Speaker Greg Stumbo gave a fiery speech to a quiet crowd in Frankfort following the election results, saying Republicans do not have a monopoly on religious values, adding: “Mary did not ride an elephant into Bethlehem that night”.

Republicans targeted Moak with mailers displaying his photo next to Obama’s under the headline, “Bobby Moak and Barack Obama…”