Hippies of Kentucky... UNITE!!!

Now is the time for Kentucky's socialists, anarcho or not, to unite. We see what happens to moderate Democrats like Alison Lundergan Grimes, and Kentucky used to be a solidly Democratic state. Our local and state politics have been historically Democratic too, but it's been whittling down ever since Mitch McConnell's anti-Revolution slapped Walter Dee Huddleston out of Kentucky in 1984. Against the Nixon Republican landslide of 1972, when President Nixon won 63% of the Kentucky statewide vote, Democrat George McGovern won Elliott and six other eastern Kentucky counties. Against the Reagan landslide of 1984, Democrat Walter Mondale won Elliott and eleven other eastern Kentucky counties.

The Republicans have lost the two last national elections in 2012 and 2008, and were poised to be wiped out of America altogether, and still might be, depending on the next election. Kentucky isn't listening to the rest of America. They're solidly Republican, ever since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But Kentucky Democrats can learn something from the national Republicans. Since the Republicans ran a moderate in 2008 and 2012, and lost, now, they must go with a radical Republican, like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, or Marco Rubio. They'll go Barry Goldwater on everybody's asses, because they know that's the only way that they can win America back. Moderate Republicans aren't winning, so it's time to change the formula. Kentucky needs to do the same thing. Moderate Democrats aren't winning, so now, it's time for the radicals, the Ashley Judds of Kentucky, the socialist hippies, ones who actually believe in working families, revolution, education, healthcare, democracy, solidarity, peace, freedom, and love, to come out of the woodwork, and to take our state back.

Here's a snapshot of Kentucky politics in the last 6 years:

Obama won 8 counties out of 120 in 2008, and only 4 counties in 2012.

In 2008, the 8 Kentucky counties who voted for Barack Obama were: Elliott County (with 63% of the electorate), Menifee County (51%), Rowan County (51%), Wolfe County (51%), Jefferson County (56%), Fayette County (52%), Henderson County (51%), and Hancock County (52%).

In 2012, the 4 Kentucky counties who voted for Barack Obama was: Elliot County (49%), Fayette County (49%), Franklin County (49%), and Jefferson County (55%).

The five counties that Obama won in 2008 but lost in 2012 were Henderson, Hancock, Rowan, Menifee and Wolfe. Obama picked up Franklin County in 2012.

For 2014, the 9 Alison Lundergan Grimes' counties are as follows: Jefferson, Fayette, Franklin, Marion, Rowan, Bath, Nicholas, Menifee, and Wolfe County. 

Kentuckians are the chickens voting for Colonel Sanders. Owsley County votes 95% Republican, when vast majority of them are on food stamps and government welfare. Kentucky's two-faced racist Republican citizens love their government handouts, and lying about needing them. Major pundits are calling to cut Kentucky off for good, especially since they continue to bite the hand that feeds.

Kentucky's turnout rates have been dismal too. Here's a list:

28.6% is how many Kentuckians voted in the November election in 2011. http://elect.ky.gov/SiteCollectionDocuments/Election%20Statistics/turnout/2011-2019/2011/TRNSUMMARYGEX11.txt

For Kentucky's 2011 primary election, turnout rate was an abysmal 10.4%. http://elect.ky.gov/SiteCollectionDocuments/Election%20Statistics/turnout/2011-2019/2011/SUMMARYPRX11.txt

In Kentucky, turnout was 49.1% on November 2, 2010.

http://elect.ky.gov/SiteCollectionDocuments/Election%20Statistics/turnout/2006-2010/10gen.pdf

2007 General Election for Kentucky garnered a 37.8% turnout rate. http://elect.ky.gov/SiteCollectionDocuments/Election%20Statistics/turnout/2006-2010/07gen.pdf

2006 General Election for Kentucky garnered a 49.5% turnout rate. http://elect.ky.gov/SiteCollectionDocuments/Election%20Statistics/turnout/2006-2010/06gen.pdf

2002 General Election for Kentucky garnered a 47.5% turnout rate. http://elect.ky.gov/SiteCollectionDocuments/Election%20Statistics/turnout/2001-2005/02gen.pdf

The 1999 November General election for Kentucky had a turnout rate of 24%. http://elect.ky.gov/SiteCollectionDocuments/Election%20Statistics/turnout/1996-2000/99gen.pdf

The 1984 November Primary Election garnered an 18% turnout rate. http://elect.ky.gov/SiteCollectionDocuments/Election%20Statistics/turnout/1980-1985/84pri.pdf

In the November General Election in 1982, Kentucke's turnout rate was 40.5%. http://elect.ky.gov/SiteCollectionDocuments/Election%20Statistics/turnout/1980-1985/82gen.pdf In the Primary in 1982, Kentucke had 14.8% turnout rate. http://elect.ky.gov/SiteCollectionDocuments/Election%20Statistics/turnout/1980-1985/82pri.pdf

28.6%, 10.4%, 49.1%, 37.8%, 49.5%, 47.5%, 24%, 18%, 40.5%, and 14.8% are not democratic majorities.

For this 2014 midterm election, Kentucky was expected to have 49% of the people voting. Mitch wasn't elected by the “demos”. Nobody whose elected in Kentucky was elected by the “demos”, and therefore, they have no democratic legitimacy. The “demos”—the Kentucky people—stayed home during election, and they do not participate in their democracy. This has been a major problem in Kentucky for over 3 decades, and probably more, which is, not coincidentally, when Mitch got into office.

Unregistered voters, and GOTV, remain one of the best untapped tools to use in Kentucky elections.