Obama has done a truly fantastic job of turning his party into a minority party. The South has gone from blue to red. Democrats are being pushed out of the Rust Belt. And they ought to consider the possibility that embracing left-wing radicalism will do to them in Ohio and Indiana what it did to them in the South.
Republicans achieved the trifecta in Kentucky politics Tuesday, wresting control of the state House from Democrats in a landslide to complement their rule over the governor’s office and state Senate.
“The people of Kentucky have been heard and they want a new direction for the commonwealth of Kentucky,” said an ebullient Gov. Matt Bevin, who is expected to benefit mightily with a GOP-led House committed to his conservative agenda.
Republicans last led the chamber in 1921. Going into Election Day, the Kentucky House was the only law-making chamber in the South still controlled by Democrats, who held a 53-47 majority.
Longtime House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, was among 17 Democratic incumbents swamped in the Republican wave. Stumbo has been in the House since 1980, except for four years to be state attorney general from 2004-2007. He has been speaker, the top leadership job in the House, since 2009.
Soros can throw enough money into some races, but no one can buy every race, everywhere.
Obama has badly hollowed out his own party and made it marginal and incapable of competing in major parts of the country.