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Fellow Blogger Jake has done an excellent job analyzing the race. Below's what he had to say (Thanks, Jake):

Now That I’ve Had A Chance To Think About It…
November 3rd, 2010

This morning I mentioned that Mark Riddle, Jack Conway’s top consultant and disastrous strategist, was 0 for 2. Guess what? He’s actually 0 for 4. He lost the Eaton and Reynolds state senate races in landslides.

I’m sorry for being mistaken and that things were twice as bad as I initially suggested. Entirely my fault.

Now for the scary shiz:

Jack Conway only won ten (10!) counties west of – no, not I-65, not I-75 – west of the MOUNTAIN PARKWAY. Ten. And four of them were Franklin, Fayette, Jefferson and Union. That’s what you call a butthole-puckering shocker.


Change just 300 votes in Western Kentucky and Jack would have lost every single county west of I-65. Switch 3,400 votes and the only county he would have carried west of the Mountain Parkway is Jefferson.

He lost Democratic strongholds in Pike, Letcher, Harlan and Perry Counties. He carried Fayette County by fewer than 1,500 votes. Slammed in the Purchase region, losing by more than 12,000 votes.

This is a legit ass-on-a-platter moment that borders on historic proportions.

Something tells me you’ll want to read the rest of the JUICY JUICY after the jump…

It’s proof that Bush tax cuts, flip-flopping, Aqua Buddha and ignoring rural Kentuckians is a forever losing campaign strategy. Waging a tepid war on television does not work.

Further, all this whining about being outspent is bogus. The only races Jack Conway has ever won? He heavily outspent every one of his opponents. He’s lost every single in which money was even-handed or favoring his opponent. That emperor has no clothes. And if I was uber gay, I’d tack on a “honey” at the end of that. That’s how insane that situation is.

This mess caused countless Democrats down the ballot to suffer. County and city officials paid the price. For instance, every Democrat in Hopkins County that had a Republican challenger lost their race. Including the popular mayor of Madisonville, Will Cox. Jack lost Hopkins County by nearly 3,000 votes.

The Kentucky Democratic Party, led by its new Republican chairman, and Governor Steve Beshear are complicit in this beat down. Sure, these were tough political environs. But the Republican Party of Kentucky had 13 regional field offices that cranked out IDs for Democratic and Independent voters non-stop – something I’ve never seen that Party do successfully on such a scale. The KDP had next to no funds to help Democratic candidates and invested the bare minimum in field programs that were apparently just for show. Next to nothing was spent outside of the Golden Triangle. Instead of the governor breaking his back to help fund the Party, he focused on grazing his own cash cow and palling around with Jerry Abramson, a guy who says he will not be a full-time Lieutenant Governor (he’s already taken a full-time teaching job at Bellarmine University).

Jack Conway’s political future is darker than anyone who loves him wants to admit. Utilities problems. Executive Branch Ethics Commission nightmare looming. His Roger Clinton brother and whatever went down with that. Ignoring rural Kentucky. It’s bad news bears and perception will matter. If he receives an opponent in the primary who can scrape together $300,000 or more, he’ll effectively be impotent and will limp into a general election — if he wins. And then? He’ll likely face well-funded Trey Grayson, who’ll never want for campaign cash and Democratic support. Remember, Jack’s never won a campaign in which he didn’t outspend his opponent.

Welcome to reality, Jack. You never should have pissed on people left and right. You NEVER should have stuck with that mess. You shouldn’t have curbstomped the very people who put you where you were. You should have apologized last night for waging such a pathetic fight and costing Democrats more than they should have lost. It would have earned you some sympathy from people like me and maybe among rural Dems out in the state.

P.S. Jennifer Moore’s countless statements on KET this cycle will haunt her should she try to run for office in 2011. And that’s coming from me, someone who actually likes her. Shocking, I know.