Time for me, I guess, to travel to Kentucky to take a new stock photo for Kentucky-related posts. I took the above picture at the historic Cumberland Gap last fall. Republican Ernie Fletcher is listed as Kentucky's governor, but he was soundly defeated this evening by Democrat Steve Beshear, who had been in the political wilderness for twenty years. Although on one hand I'm saddened to see a Republican lose, Fletcher had it coming, he became entangled in a hiring scandal in which political favorites got jobs over other applicants.
Gee, that sounds like what's been going on in Illinois during the five years Democrat Rod Blagojevich has been governor. Kentucky has smarter voters than Illinois--Blagojevich was reelected by a comfortable margin last year.
Farther south in Mississippi, Republican Haley Barbour, perhaps the only major public official in the region who didn't come off as a fool after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, easily won another four year term.
Related post:
Cumberland Gap: Where the West was first won
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