2019 KY GOV Megathread, Andy Beshear wins

[UncleSam]

I would LOVE to hear your explanation for it then. And please spare me the socialism BS. And before you blame “cultural liberalism” or social leftists, consider the name Barack Hussein Obama, a black man from the south side of Chicago in the context of that

Uhhh because Bill Clinton of the 90s would be a moderate Republican now, and the Democratic Party has shifted super far left in comparison to that, especially on the environment and guns? You realize that Kentucky, like West Virginia, has large coal and fossil fuel industries that they don’t want shut down or regulated out of existence by the EPA?

There are plenty of policy reasons that Kentucky, among other states, has shifted so far right in the last decade or so. I don’t doubt that Obama being black had something to do with that, but it’s not nearly as large of a reason as you keep insinuating it to be.

[UncleSam]

Not relevant. What happened between 2008 and 2016?

A black man was President. Duh. I’m sure all these places will stop swinging Republican next year though after the coal industry has all but died out under Trump.

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You think they found out he was black after they voted for him? Walked into the polling booth, saw "Barack Hussein Obama," thought "huh, sounds like a Slovak or something," saw him on TV later and realized he's black? Because right now you're arguing that the very fact of Obama being president made people who voted for Obama get more racist.

Yes. And frankly I have better things to do with my time than argue with someone who thinks Mitch McConnell has a decent chance of losing to a Democrat

LOL ragequit more

You’re just upset that your premise makes no sense. These regions swung hard against Hillary, not Obama. There’s a better argument to be made they did it out of misogyny than racism.