The turnout in Kentucky was up 150%. That bodes well for the rest of the country. Turnout is key

[Demovictory9]

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The turnout in Kentucky was up 150%. That bodes well for the rest of the country. Turnout is key to 2020. The resistance needs to help facilitate this. Register voters, knock on doors, make calls, etc.

[volstork]

1. Need to replicate the KY

GOTV strategy nationwide!

Tip of the hat to The Commonwealth of Kentucky!

[FirstLight]

2. It is a ray of Light in these times...

and the work is not done yet!

I hope to get my schedule torqued down so I can help do the GOTV work...got calls and texts for local motivation !

KY and MS are signs that the people are waking up and need to be able to have a voice

[napi21]

3. I sure HOPE that continues throughout the year and all the way to NOV. 2020.

THAT'S the sure way to beat the JA and boot him out of the WH for sure.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Jefferson County/Louisville margin of victory went from 37k in 2015 to 100k

Say no more.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Twitter reply:

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[MontanaMama]

7. So true.

I would add that Dems who vote 3rd party elect repukes as well.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. I voted a straight ticket today

Though I have been known to vote for a third party candidate in local races if otherwise it would be a Republican running unopposed. That's the problem in a Republican controlled district, for years the Democrats didn't even field a candidate for Congress. I know two of our local Democratic candidates personally so I'm hoping for good news tonight - and I've spread the word whenever I got the chance.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

6. What this election here may mostly tell the Democratic Party leadership is....

that yes, if a candidate is proven enough of a radical and adequately called out for it, some Republicans will vote for a Democrat.

Just look at the margins for our other races. Rethugs won by substantial margins. In normal times, I believe most voters vote straight party ticket. However, in this case it appears a large number of Republicans broke that habit and voted for individual offices on the ballot, with many voting for our candidate for governor or they may have simply not cast a vote for governor out of spite for Bevin.

I have not seen an analysis of the numbers in order to prove or disprove my hypothesis.

KY...........

[yellowdogintexas]

11. There is a third thing to figure in to this:

Many voters will only vote the top line on the ballot. SO in KY's case voters just picked someone for governor and didn't bother with anything else. There are many reasons people do this.. but mostly it is because they are more familiar with the top race on the ballot.

THis even holds true on a primary ballot. In 2016 many voters just voted that presidential line and did not vote in the other primaries on that ballot. We could tell when looking at our precinct reports so we might have 1000 ballots cast total and all 1000 of them did vote for president - but when you run the tallies on the other races and compare numbers you might find only 600 votes were cast in total for the state rep or state senate race on that ballot (for example)

I hope this makes sense, I am winding down from my long long day at the polls for the Great Texas Constitutional Amendment Vote. Our turnout was pretty high for this type of election I was shocked.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

13. Thanks for that input - had not considered that one!

That's why a detailed analysis will be need to determine what caused the skewed vote only for governor, and you may be right.

And, thanks for your hard work in TX for our democracy.........

It does indeed depend on a village of volunteers!

[calimary]

9. Turnout is EVERYTHING!

When Democrats vote, Democrats win. The numbers are on OUR side. All we have to do is make sure they’re motivated to SHOW UP TO VOTE!

That’s ALL we have to do.

Simply because there are more of us.

[Lexblues]

10. I heard that Beshear had the best ground game of any Dem

in recent memory according to political insiders in this state. And it paid off big time, especially in Louisville!

[yellowdogintexas]

12. Jefferson, Fayette, Franklin and Warren counties

brought Beshear home. This link from the NYT has a great map showing all the counties. Hovering over Jefferson and Fayette is eye popping. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/05/us/elections/results-kentucky-governor-general-election.html

[duforsure]

14. That's got to be really upsetting for putin now

Knowing they can't manipulate that amount of votes for his republican candidates for the 2020 election.

[uponit7771]

15. THIS !!!!