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Bevin rides Republican wave to defeat Conway in Kentucky governor race
Kentucky Republican gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin, right, hugs one of his supporters at the Republican Party celebration Tuesday, November 3, 2015, in Louisville, Ky.
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With only days left to go before Tuesday’s elections, Democrat Jack Conway seemed to have a solid lead against upstart Republican challenger Matt Bevin in the race to replace out-going Governor Steve Beshear.
From the start of his long-shot campaign for governor of Kentucky, Republican Matt Bevin was gunning to make the race a referendum on Obamacare, promising to roll back a law that he dubbed “a disaster for Kentucky taxpayers”.
Yeah, and Scott Walker never said he was going to blow up collective bargaining, or sign a radical anti-choice law, or make Wisconsin a right-to-work state.
In Virginia, a swing state, Democrats are pushing to reverse a narrow Republican majority in the state Senate and empower Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe in negotiations with Republicans who control the state House.
Mr. Conway made a concession and congratulations call before 9 p.m., telling supporters at the Frankfort Convention Center that he had told his rival that he “remained positive about moving this state forward, and that if he ever needed any assistance, that this Democrat was at his disposal”. The Democrats’ difficulties will take multiple election cycles to fix.
But Tuesday’s election could change all that.
When Mr. Bevin takes office, Republicans will also control the state Senate, though the Democrats will still hold an eight-seat majority in its House of Representatives. The results, which saw major victories for the Republican Party, spoke volumes about the political climate.
Voting against candidates and choosing between the lesser of two evils were also common themes among voters. Kenney had pledged to step up the fight on poverty and provide universal pre-kindergarten. Democratic political consultant Dale Emmons said voters blamed the party for the state’s economic troubles over the past several years. “We have a lot of people still suffering – our economy’s weak, our tax base is weak”. That potentially could influence the next round of legislative and congressional redistricting in an important swing state.
In Houston, voters overwhelminglyopposedProposition 1, a non-discrimination initiative – a huge loss for LGBT activists who campaigned for it. Many prominent Democrats, including Obama and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, endorsed Prop. 1, also known as Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance, or HERO.
In another victory for conservatives, voters in Ohio failed to approve a ballot measure that would have legalized marijuana, though most pro-marijuana advocates did not openly lend their support because it would have restricted marijuana production to a few wealthy individuals. Opponents, including a coalition of conservative pastors, contend the measure infringes on their religious beliefs.
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Unlike Ohio, the four states – Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska – that have approved recreational pot for adults began with medical marijuana. San Francisco voters defeated Proposition F, sometimes called the “Airbnb Initiative”, that would have allowed the city to penalize the short-term rental platform for violating rules against short-term rentals. A separate measure to authorize a $310 million bond package for affordable housing in the city required a two-thirds vote and had yet to be decided.