Election 2007: Kentucky Governor
Kentucky Governor: Beshear 54% Fletcher 39%
"As Kentucky voters prepare to go to the polls next week, they appear ready to elect a new Governor. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows former Lt. Governor Steven Beshear (D) leading incumbent Governor Ernie Fletcher (R) 54% to 39% in the 2007 Kentucky Governor’s race...
Thirty-six percent (36%) of Kentucky voters say that President George W. Bush is doing a good or excellent job while 46% rate his performance as poor. Those figures mark a significant decline from May when 45% said he was doing a good or an excellent job. Bush won Kentucky’s Electoral Votes twice by winning 57% of the popular vote in 2000 and 60% in 2004. President Bill Clinton won the state twice in the 1990s, but he never received more than 46% of the popular vote.
Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is competitive with leading Republicans in the race for Kentucky’s Electoral College Votes in 2008. <...>
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_2008__1/2008_governor_elections/election_2007_kentucky_governor
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: whoever the Democratic nominee ends up being, s/he must be competitive in the border states/Upper Appalachia to cobble together the Electoral College victory. As more down-ticket offices turn blue in states like Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, etc., the eventual nominee will have a stronger infrastructure of support to draw upon in the general in '08.
Good luck to the Dems in the sister Commonwealth of Kentucky tomorrow!
- Dave
P.S. Mitch McConnell may be vulnerable next year, too: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_2008__1/2008_senate_elections/election_2008_kentucky_senate
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