First Tuesday in November
It’s Election Day in some states, and early numbers have the expected victors on top:
- Governor Ernie Fletcher of KY has lost to his Democratic opponent, Steve Beshear, despite having routinely attempted to energize the conservative base.
- In Mississippi, Republican Haley Barber seems to be the last man standing in the wake of Katrina.
Normally mid-cycle elections help to read the pulse of voters in the respective regions. Unfortunately, given the scandals in KY and the Katrina fall-out, neither of these cases say much of anything substantial, other than signaling the official end of the Rove era, now that a Democratic governor has been reinstated in a formerly-D stronghold like Kentucky.