(01-13-2021 10:51 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(01-13-2021 10:39 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Who is his base in KY? I can't understand why the Dems can't find a candidate that can get within 10 point of him.

Kentucky is a strange state. Rand's campaign manager once explained it to me.

They tend to vote democrat in local elections, so the county officers tend to be democrat. But in state and national elections they tend to vote republican. Particularly in the eastern part of the state, the coal miners vote democrat in local elections because the union leaders are democrats, but anti-democrat because of anti-coal green energy in state and national elections.

I've got a buddy from deep in the eastern Kentucky mountains that used to be involved in local politics. He pretty much gave me the same explanation.