Preparing To Rage Against The Dying Of The Night

By Kleinheider Posted on October 21, 2008 at 9:44 am

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is fully aware of the possibility of his defeat on election day:

“Unlike six years ago, it’s not going to be a coronation,” said McConnell at the beginning of his remarks. “It was fun getting 65 percent of the vote and carrying 113 out of 120 counties, but that was then and this is now.”

SEE ALSO: “I’ll bring home the pork!”

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Hillary Wins In Cantuckee

By Kleinheider Posted on May 20, 2008 at 6:20 pm

All the networks say so. Sean Braisted has some exit polling and Brendan Loy wonders how Barack Obama will go about declaring himself the winner of the Democratic Primary contest at large before the polls have even closed in the second primary of the night, Oregon.

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The GoldnI “Kentucky/Oregon/American Idol Finale” Live-Blog
Vibinc’s Cluster**** to the Nomination

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Tags: Barack Obama, Declaring Mission Accomplished, Hillary Clinton, Kentucky, Last Of The Mohicans, Oregon  

The Appalachian Sensation

By Kleinheider Posted on May 8, 2008 at 2:03 pm

Hillary Clinton has made her strongest electoral showings in the counties and precincts located in the region of the country known as Appalachia. This does not bode well for Barack Obama in Kentucky and West Virginia:

Appalachia didn’t budge. [Clinton] is going to absolutely blow [Obama] out of the water in West VA and KY. Whether that is enough to get her back in the race is another matter altogether.

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Tags: Appalachia, Appalachian Sensation, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Kentucky, West Virginia, white folk  

Not That Simple

By Kleinheider Posted on April 17, 2008 at 7:10 pm

R. Neal explains that yesterday’s Kentucky Supreme Court ruling seemingly vindicating the three drug protocol for lethal injection create more questions than it answers.

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Tags: Baze v. Rees, Death Penalty, Kentucky, lethal injection