Dan Mongiardo Copies Sarah Palin
The prospect of losing an election he thought was in the bag can make a politician do stupid things. It made Bill Clinton talk like a racist, it made John McCain choose a running mate who guaranteed his landslide loss, and it's making Dan Mongiardo antagonize the voters he can't win without.
Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money explains:
Apart for the electoral stupidity, the notion that Louisville isn't the "real Kentucky" rankles in the same way as Sarah Palin's assertions about "Real America." Dividing the country between the pure heartland and the decadent urban cesspools has been a Republican electoral tactic since at least the 1960s, and it still carries a heavy stench of exclusion. One out of every six citizens of Kentucky lives in Louisville, and they're just as real as anyone else in the state. More importantly, their votes count just as much; there is no Electoral College for the US Senate in Kentucky. I detest the notion that rural voters are somehow more authentic than urban voters, and this seems to be what the Mongiardo folks are pushing in order to explain away a weak fundraising quarter.
Read the whole thing.
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One sixth of Kentucky won't elect a statewide dog-catcher.
Who is the last Democrat elected to a statewide office who wasn't from Louisville - besides Patton, who worked out of Lexington or Beshear whose law firm is Lex & Lou - no where near Dawson Springs which he & I left over 40 years ago. But I go back every 3 months; still belong to the VFW back there (life member) and have a small inactive farm.
Try talking to someone in the Democratic Party from Louisville, if you aren't, and see who listens.
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