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Will Kentucky Embrace Ashley Judd's Progressive Senate Run?

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No Malarkey!12/05/2012 4:18:58 am PST

re: #3 Destro

Some of these southern and western states have pockets of progressive culture - Nashville is very hip and so is Austin. Some southern states have shifted cultures like Virginia.

I don’t know much about Kentucky but it may be more progressive than we think deep down. So far the south has been under the thumb of post Nixon Strategy Republicans where guns, god and gays and dog whistle racism were wedge issues but those may not be motivating factors these days as they used to.

I live here, Destro. The local democratic Congressman, Ben Chandler, the grandson of a legendary governor and so conservative that the NRA endorsed him, was just defeated by a young tea bagger after the GOP poured millions into this race. He lost because a bunch of rural democrats added to his district to help him survive voted Tea Party. They is only one progressive island in a red sea in Kentucky, and that’s Louisville. Mitch will have a huge warchest to paint Ashley as a typical Hollywood liberal, and to attach her to the President, and she will lose, unfortunately.