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Kentucky

A Little Weird

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1. Someone did file to run as a Democrat against him

Reply to iamthebandfanman (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 08:38 PM

Feb 2014

I haven't heard much about him, but based on this article, I think it sounds like a stretch to even call him a democrat.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20140207/NEWS010802/302070071/Democratic-challenger-Massie-isn-t-conservative-enough?nclick_check=1

The KY 4th is about as red as you can get, but I do wish there would at least be some opposition. It will never change if we preemptively surrender every time.

As for the at-large format - that's interesting I didn't know it was ever done that way! Today, I don't think it would be beneficial to democrats. We get an occasional progressive house member (like Yarmuth) from Louisville. I don't think that would ever happen in a statewide election. That's just my impression, I don't have anything to back that up.

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