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I sure will a little dictator who loved shutting state down and making people and kids wear face diapers. If anybody votes a democrat in anywhere they are dumb as hell
I sure will. A little dictator who loved shutting the state down and made adults and kids alike wear face diapers. If anybody votes a democrat in anywhere, they are dumb as hell.

Fixed it for you, Mr. dumb as hell.
 

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^Many Parents, friends and family backed teachers and supported Beshear + all other republicans in the last election.

Teachers/school systems/school boards have used up their goodwill and will not get that kind of backing in the next election.

Beshear will have teachers/teachers unions - he will not have the extended support those people got in 2019.
Alright. But meanwhile Beshear has a 60+% approval rating. Betting line wouldn’t jive with your claims.
 

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Over 60% of Kentuckians oppose a total ban on abortion.
Over 70% of Kentuckians favor legalization of gambling
Over 90% of Kentuckians favor medical marijuana

Kentucky’s current unemployment rate is 3.7%. By comparison, this is lower than pre-covid.
Kentucky ended the 2021 fiscal year with a 1.1 billion dollar budget surplus, including a 10.9% increase in general fund receipts.
Meanwhile, the trend of growth has continued into 2022


He is also the incumbent governor with a consistent trend of popular approval

So, other than wishful thinking, Beshear will most likely be re-elected.
 
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Beshear won by 5000 votes against a hated candidate. In the same election, Cameron won by 221k votes, Adams won by 5% and 60k votes, Harmon won by 205k votes, Quarles by 270k and Ball won by 300k votes.

Trump by 550k in 2020.

Beshear and schools will hurt - would doubt he can make up for his handling of that. JCPS still in masks, 1 of 4 counties in the country. That plays.
The teachers lost their respect. They told people Bevin was bad and most people were just like "my kids teacher is saying this guy is a horrible person so he must be". Teachers have lost all that credibility.
 
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Andy doesn’t have to worry about winning the teachers because he will be a better alternative for them than an anti-public school GOP governor.

Abortion will also come front and center and while I’m sure you’re all about banning abortion, majority are not. Hardline right wingers already in jeopardy on that issue alone.
How come we always look at the far right of the right but we never look at the far left of the left? By your reasoning he has to worry about banning guns and shutting down commerce. That seems like a really big deal in my state. I have guns and work in a place that engages in commerce. Andy is basically telling me to get more poor and more accustomed to being a victim of crime.
 

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A Trump backed governor was also rejected once by the public. That’s a bad sign for Daniel Cameron and couple that with the abortion ban issue, the best chance for GOP is going to be a more moderate conservative.

The problem with that is that there will not be enough difference between a moderate conservative and Andy Beshear. GOP will likely focus on Covid and lockdowns, but that’s just going to win them GOP votes they already had.
If history has taught us anything its that pubs need to put candidates forward that they are ok losing to. If you put someone up they can't stand.... They might send the fbi after them.
 

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Over 60% of Kentuckians oppose a total ban on abortion.
Over 70% of Kentuckians favor legalization of gambling
Over 90% of Kentuckians favor medical marijuana

Kentucky’s current unemployment rate is 3.7%. By comparison, this is lower than pre-covid.
Kentucky ended the 2021 fiscal year with a 1.1 billion dollar budget surplus, including a 10.9% increase in general fund receipts.
Meanwhile, the trend of growth has continued into 2022


He is also the incumbent governor with a consistent trend of popular approval

So, other than wishful thinking, Beshear will most likely be re-elected.
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Over 60% of Kentuckians oppose a total ban on abortion.
It will be *HILARIOUS* if Beshear tries to make abortion a main issue in the general election. That would be a massive unforced error and he's probably too smart for that. It might play well in Louisville and Lexington where he is going to win massively anyway but would cause huge turnout against him across the state, especially in areas where he has gained favor from his commendable disaster relief efforts.

I really don't care who the Republican candidate is, frankly, because I will be voting for him or her without reservation. I would vote for Jussie Smollett over Andy Beshear.

That said, the smart bet in the general election at this point would be on Beshear, imo. That could change if Cameron ends up being the Republican candidate. Cameron has the bona fides to relitigate Beshear's COVID lockdown idiocy, a topic that Beshear is going to try to avoid like the plague -- a real plague.

If it is Cameron, I do look forward to Louisville crazies finding some idiotic way to call him a racist a la Larry Elder. Chris Kolb's twitter feed will be full of delicious leftist tears and other forms of womanly discharge.
 
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ThroughBlue and BC_in_06 both say AB has zero chance and will put whatever you want on it. I am offering to do so at 3-1 odds a year and a half before the election.

IF AB really has zero chance, it ought to be free money to you. Like betting on Secretariat in the Belmont or American Phaoroh in the BC Classic, if it is a mortal lock, odds should be irrelevant.
He is also the incumbent governor with a consistent trend of popular approval.

So, other than wishful thinking, Beshear will most likely be re-elected.

I like how @Tskware makes the post above, wanting 3-1 odds on a Beshear underdog position…then likes the post right below - mentioning other than wishful thinking, Beshear will be re-elected.

Tries to do a gotcha - you’ll lay any bet you’re so confident blah blah blah…then thinks his guy is the odds on favorite. Weasel/cowardly posting there 😂
 

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Evil Andy vs coal baron’s wife vs milquetoast weed hater farm guy vs Uncle Ruckus the bootlicker.

What a field.
 

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Evil Andy vs coal baron’s wife vs milquetoast weed hater farm guy vs Uncle Ruckus the bootlicker.

What a field.
I think I could vote for the coal baron's wife. She looks like someone who could move Kentucky forward for once. She would certainly bring attention to the state.
 
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Andy wins 2019 by 5000 votes. The closest by percentage (0.37%) election in our state’s history. Andy better hope that there will be no defections of the 709,890 that voted for him.

At 59% approval, he should expand his victory margin.🤣


Small or not, a lot of these counties are going to be redder.

A lot of these blue counties are going to be red.

Where are you going to make up those losses? Are Jefferson and Fayette going to be even more enthusiastic than 2019?

My county doesn't trust democrats to run for local offices any more. The primary decides the office holder. Why would they vote differently for andy? I know, he's proven himself to be such a moderate. My county will be 1-2 shades redder.

 
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Andy wins 2019 by 5000 votes. The closest by percentage (0.37%) election in our state’s history. Andy better hope that there will be no defections of the 709,890 that voted for him.

At 59% approval, he should expand his victory margin.🤣


Small or not, a lot of these counties are going to be redder.

A lot of these blue counties are going to be red.

Where are you going to make up those losses? Are Jefferson and Fayette going to be even more enthusiastic than 2019?

My county doesn't trust democrats to run for local offices any more. The primary decides the office holder. Why would they vote differently for andy? I know, he's proven himself to be such a moderate. My county will be 1-2 shades redder.

And did your area have the teachers pushing him like we did here? After the covid stuff I know a lot of people that lost a lot of respect for teachers. I can't imagine them being as big of a positive endorsement they were a few years ago.
 

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I don’t know, let’s look at the data. She’s GOP, Kentucky is still, mostly GOP. She has a certain amount of name recognition. She has funding. She was a US Ambassador. Depending on how you look at it, a Trump endorsed candidate still carries weight in Kentucky. She may not win but taking the emotions out and simply looking at the data, she’ll do well in Kentucky.
Still?.. It Carries Weight against every Biden Dem.
 
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And did your area have the teachers pushing him like we did here? After the covid stuff I know a lot of people that lost a lot of respect for teachers. I can't imagine them being as big of a positive endorsement they were a few years ago.
Yes. My wife's superintendent told the staff that they were going to lose their pensions. There wasn't going to be a new hire/old hire system. There wasn't going to be a graduated system.

It was just going to go away. Everything she had put in, poof. Then. Then. Then, there won't even be social security to fall back on.


We have friends that taught at our community college. They weened them off of the pension system a long time ago and transitioned them to a 403b. Did anyone end up a pauper for teaching at the college level without a pension? There should be a track record by now. For the life of me, I don't know why we had to reinvent the wheel. Why could it not have been framed that we are just implementing the college style retirement plan.
 
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I like how @Tskware makes the post above, wanting 3-1 odds on a Beshear underdog position…then likes the post right below - mentioning other than wishful thinking, Beshear will be re-elected.

Tries to do a gotcha - you’ll lay any bet you’re so confident blah blah blah…then thinks his guy is the odds on favorite. Weasel/cowardly posting there 😂

Yes, that is because I am a gambler at heart, and know a good bet when I see one. I am not trying to be fair, I am trying to win money. And I suggested the stakes too, to make it a real wager, not just a beer sometime. If I can talk loud mouth idiots into giving me 3-1 odds on what in reality is probably at least 50-50, will make that bet every time.
 

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Andy wins 2019 by 5000 votes. The closest by percentage (0.37%) election in our state’s history. Andy better hope that there will be no defections of the 709,890 that voted for him.

At 59% approval, he should expand his victory margin.🤣


Small or not, a lot of these counties are going to be redder.

A lot of these blue counties are going to be red.

Where are you going to make up those losses? Are Jefferson and Fayette going to be even more enthusiastic than 2019?

My county doesn't trust democrats to run for local offices any more. The primary decides the office holder. Why would they vote differently for andy? I know, he's proven himself to be such a moderate. My county will be 1-2 shades redder.

Which county is that?
 

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Aye, I don’t want to send you my email. Although I kind of trust you because of CBB board. When it comes time, I’ll live up to it if you’re in. Can Venmo.

Disclaimer: in 2020, I bet a moderator on this board $500 that Trump would lose and he disappeared. So, there’s that.
Man I haven’t posted on cbb in awhile. I’ve been pretty down on basketball lately as I’m sure we all have. I’m gonna start checking things out over there again.
 
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What percentage of Kentuckians support cutting taxes? That will never get done. Stop using phrases like that because what the peasants support matters zero to the crown
 

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Seems racist of you.

Cool. I take it you’ve never watched the Boondocks?

F Cameron. He’s the least likely of the four to get my vote and his skin color has nothing to do with it. Quarles is my second least likely. I’ll have to learn Craft’s stance on legal cannabis and sports gambling. I give zero ***** about abortion or the standard left/right BS.

I’m a legal cannabis advocate and sit on the board of a couple nonprofit advocacy groups.

I’ve been in Frankfort for the last four years lobbying GOP lawmakers to pass a medical bill at minimum. We always get a restrictive, ****** bill through the House where it goes to Stivers’ Senate to die because he’s got skin in the bourbon game.

Legal cannabis has the support of more than 75 percent of Kentuckians and is popular with Dems and Repubs, yet the party with a supermajority that could get something done is holding it up year after year.

Seeing as Cameron deep throats the entire thin blue boot, he’s beyond useless to me.

So, again, f him
 
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Cool. I take it you’ve never watched the Boondocks?

F Cameron. He’s the least likely of the four to get my vote and his skin color has nothing to do with it. Quarles is my second least likely. I’ll have to learn Craft’s stance on legal cannabis and sports gambling. I give zero ***** about abortion or the standard left/right BS.

I’m a legal cannabis advocate and sit on the board of a couple nonprofit advocacy groups.

I’ve been in Frankfort for the last four years lobbying GOP lawmakers to pass a medical bill at minimum. We always get a restrictive, ****** bill through the House where it goes to Stivers’ Senate to die because he’s got skin in the bourbon game.

Legal cannabis has the support of more than 75 percent of Kentuckians and is popular with Dems and Repubs, yet the party with a supermajority that could get something done is holding it up year after year.

Seeing as Cameron deep throats the entire thin blue boot, he’s beyond useless to me.

So, again, f him
No - i don't watch the boondocks, but figure Uncle Ruckus was a play on an Uncle Tom...i guess Boondocks wiki agrees:

He is a black man who firmly doesn't like black people -- the world's biggest "Uncle Tom". An overweight, horrid, detestable homely man with one oversized glass-eye, he enjoys disassociating himself from other African Americans as much as possible, and is outspoken in his support of what Huey calls the "white supremacist power structure."

He holds extremely racist views towards all black people, and everyone else who isn't white. Uncle Ruckus's name is a reference to Uncle Remus or Uncle Tom. He is the darkest-skinned character on the show. His name is also a reference to Amos Rucker, an African-American United Confederate Veterans member, who allegedly wanted to stay a slave after the United States Civil War. A "ruckus" is also the act of making a noisy disturbance, something which Uncle Ruckus is almost always sure to do. His #1 song he wrote is called "Don't Trust Them New N***as Over There".

So this is what you called Cameron...to me, again, yes - seems racist.
 

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Not a chance in hell I’d vote for Cameron, but I actually think it’d be a good thing for society if there were more people who didn’t conform to how they are “supposed to vote”. Think that’s part of the reason we live in Al an increasingly polarized and backwards society