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?
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“What happened is the Democrat Party is asleep”, said Rowan County Judge Executive Doc Blevins, a former Democratic state senator.
In the end, the Kentucky gubernatorial race appeared to turn, not on the ACA, but on the state’s low opinion of Mr. Obama and its general slide toward the Republican column.
But the elections weren’t all good news for the Republicans.
Party leaders are skeptical that outsiders’ rebellious appeal will be sufficiently deep and lasting to send such a candidate to the White House.
So while the social rubric on the national scale is sliding our way that doesn’t mean shit unless we register to vote and then actually vote. Democrats now hold a 54-to-46 seat advantage.
Bevin, an investment manager who has never held public office, branded Democratic rival Jack Conway as a “career politician”. On Capitol Hill, Democrats have given up control of both the House and Senate.
The fresh losses raise serious questions for Democrats about how the party will fare next year when Obama isn’t on the ticket.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, is making specific campaign appeals to the Hispanics, blacks and young voters who helped propel Obama to victory.
Ethan Nadelmann, founder and director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the nation’s leading drug policy reform organization, said defeat of the pot proposal is “relatively insignificant” because of its unconventional call for “a constitutionally mandated oligopoly over an agricultural product”. His plan is to transition everyone on the state exchange to the federally run exchange by 2017 because he says Kynect is costing Kentucky taxpayers too much. A Conway victory would have been heralded by Democrats as a sign of the dangers of right-wing extremism to the Republican Party.
When the votes were counted Tuesday night, the results weren’t even close. McAuliffe failed in his campaign to put Virginia’s legislature back in Democratic hands. Bevin will be only the second Republican governor in the state in four decades.
Opening the Senate session on Wednesday, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulated Kentucky Gov.-elect Matt Bevin. Tuesday’s election to fill three open seats on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was the latest judicial contest to attract heavy attention and spending.
The elimination of the kynect program is just one of an assortment of conservative policies Bevin will seek to impose as governor. WPA Research is in the field for us today surveying Kentuckians on this election, and I hope to have more insights and interesting information for you this weekend. “There is something happening”.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Kentucky Sen. Matt Bevin ran as a change agent and there are many challenges that the Commonwealth is facing that aren’t served well by the status-quo. It will likely quell a few Republican concerns that Paul should drop his struggling presidential bid and focus on his Senate re-election campaign.
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Bevin wasn’t the only outsider who won this week. 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”.
