Is Jack Conway's political career over?

[Pandaguineapig]

For a guy once billed as a southern JFK two embarrassing losses to political noobs is pretty bad

[DrScholl]

Bevin won, be happy and leave it at that.

[Suburbia]

No, I still think he is the Southern JFK. Edelen and him will fight over that role. He can run for Senate in 2020 against McConnell.

[Maxwell]

All of Kentucky's recent Democrat rising stars haven proven to be dim bulbs - Grimes ran a totally afraid campaign that lost badly, and Conway just reeked of a disingenuous John Edwards type appeal. Kentucky Dems still do okay in the legislature - maybe there's future talent there.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Far from it.  The fact that he's even won statewide office before proves that he has a lot of potential for the future.  One loss won't end his entire career.

[Maxwell]

Far from it.  The fact that he's even won statewide office before proves that he has a lot of potential for the future.  One loss won't end his entire career.

the guy only won statewide elections because they were races where the spotlight wasn't on him. With the spotlight on him, he chokes EVERY TIME. Conway's career is done like Disco.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Far from it.  The fact that he's even won statewide office before proves that he has a lot of potential for the future.  One loss won't end his entire career.

the guy only won statewide elections because they were races where the spotlight wasn't on him. With the spotlight on him, he chokes EVERY TIME. Conway's career is done like Disco.

He's moderate enough to beat any anti-Democrat streak.  Obama dragged him down this year (and in 2010).  Come 2017, when Obama is out of the White House, all bets are off.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Kentucky is going to become increasingly hard for Democrats.  The blue dogs are dying off.

[Maxwell]

Far from it.  The fact that he's even won statewide office before proves that he has a lot of potential for the future.  One loss won't end his entire career.

the guy only won statewide elections because they were races where the spotlight wasn't on him. With the spotlight on him, he chokes EVERY TIME. Conway's career is done like Disco.

He's moderate enough to beat any anti-Democrat streak.  Obama dragged him down this year (and in 2010).  Come 2017, when Obama is out of the White House, all bets are off.

He's lost every time.

[FDRfan1985]

Jack Conway is loser when it comes to high profile races. He lost the Senate to Bunning, Lost to Anne Northrup. Now he can add Matt Bevin to that list of people he lost to. I'm glad he lost in a way even though I voted for him.

[Vosem]

Far from it.  The fact that he's even won statewide office before proves that he has a lot of potential for the future.  One loss won't end his entire career.

the guy only won statewide elections because they were races where the spotlight wasn't on him. With the spotlight on him, he chokes EVERY TIME. Conway's career is done like Disco.

He's moderate enough to beat any anti-Democrat streak.  Obama dragged him down this year (and in 2010).  Come 2017, when Obama is out of the White House, all bets are off.

Conway has fought 5 elections. The two times that Republicans didn't seriously challenge him (when he ran for Atty Gen in 2007 and 2011), he obviously won. The three competitive races he ran, for the House in 2002, for the Senate in 2010, and for Governor in 2015, he all lost. The 2010 election can be excused by climate and location. The other two just cannot (the House district he lost, by the way, was held by the Democrats in 2010 under the same lines he lost it under). There is more Democratic talent than just Jack Conway in Kentucky. He is finished.

[RI]

Hopefully.

[rpryor03]

Far from it.  The fact that he's even won statewide office before proves that he has a lot of potential for the future.  One loss won't end his entire career.

the guy only won statewide elections because they were races where the spotlight wasn't on him. With the spotlight on him, he chokes EVERY TIME. Conway's career is done like Disco.

He's moderate enough to beat any anti-Democrat streak.  Obama dragged him down this year (and in 2010).  Come 2017, when Obama is out of the White House, all bets are off.

He's lost every time.

Come on Oldies. He's lost to Matt Bevin and Rand Paul. Imagine how badly he'd be trounced by the McConnell machine. He's done.

[JMT]

Yes. Democrats should not run Conway for an office again, he has lost some pretty high profile races. Losing to Bevin is pretty pathetic if you ask me.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Anti-Catholic bigotry is alive and well folks.

The South is a dangerous place. I can't help but feel Kim Davis and the Pope is in on this somehow.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

I said when this race started that it was a mistake for KY Dems to fall in line behind him. He's a bad candidate.

[SATW]

Idk, im just happy bevin won

[The_Doctor]

The man lost to Matt Bevin. Matt Bevin. He is sent to the same place Martha Coakley is being currently exiled to: somewhere far from the Democratic Party's good graces.

[The Other Castro]

Time to give him the Coakley treatment.

[Xing]

The man lost to Matt Bevin. Matt Bevin. He is sent to the same place Martha Coakley is being currently exiled to: somewhere far from the Democratic Party's good graces.

I wouldn't say he's quite as bad as Coakley. It's one thing for a Democrat to lose twice in Kentucky, it's another thing to lose twice in Massachusetts.

[Figueira]

The man lost to Matt Bevin. Matt Bevin. He is sent to the same place Martha Coakley is being currently exiled to: somewhere far from the Democratic Party's good graces.

I wouldn't say he's quite as bad as Coakley. It's one thing for a Democrat to lose twice in Kentucky, it's another thing to lose twice in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts is honestly a more Republican state than Kentucky on the gubernatorial level.

[TJ in Oregon]

Anti-Catholic bigotry is alive and well folks.

The South is a dangerous place. I can't help but feel Kim Davis and the Pope is in on this somehow.

That was what their secret meeting was actually about. It's all an anti-Conway conspiracy.

[TJ in Oregon]

Far from it.  The fact that he's even won statewide office before proves that he has a lot of potential for the future.  One loss won't end his entire career.

the guy only won statewide elections because they were races where the spotlight wasn't on him. With the spotlight on him, he chokes EVERY TIME. Conway's career is done like Disco.

He's moderate enough to beat any anti-Democrat streak.  Obama dragged him down this year (and in 2010).  Come 2017, when Obama is out of the White House, all bets are off.

The thing is every year that goes by right now is pushing Kentucky further and further along its political realignment. Perhaps Obama's absence will change that but I highly doubt it. The Democratic Party doesn't seem to be heading in a direction amenable to winning Kentucky and I have a hard time seeing them change that. Sure, maybe he can run for Mayor or something but I doubt he'll win statewide office again.