The Republican sweep first evident in the last record making victories for conservatives, libertarian and nationalist GOP candidates extending their new majority in the House and taking over the Senate, in what many say is a precursor to the 2016 Presidential campaign, and the first time in over 40 years Tuesday, the Democrats have lost the Governorship in an historical upset.
The voters in Kentucky elected Republican and Tea Party favorite and millionaire GOP investor and businessman Matt Bevin, an outsider anti-establishment non-politician and anti-McConnell businessman who has modeled his run on Donald Trump, shocks the news pundits and polls to win the state’s next chief executive and defeated the in-power state Attorney General and Democrat Jack Conway.
Bevin is a new-comer who first made headlines attempting to challenge the current Senate leader and Republican Mitch McConnell who is part of the Republican "leadership" of which one of the leaders, Boehner, lost his position as Speaker of the House.
McConnell faces his own challenges now to outst him as Senate Majority Leader by challenges from the same opposition that is driving Trump and Carson to the top of the polls as the top tier Republican candidates for President.
This victory is huge for the anti-establishment wave, as we learn this morning that establishment candidate Jeb Bush has dropped to 4% or under after his recent attacks on fellow Floridian Marco Rubio.
Rubio is also seen as outside the establishment, though he is a politician who has not yet made the upper tier but has seen a rise in the polls after his fearless slap down of biased CNBC moderators at the last debate, who along with several other candidates took the management of the debate designed to simply assassinate the candidates and abrogate discussion of actual issues in favor of boxed-in commercials for the Democrats, and literally turned the agenda of the debate format on it's head and shamed the Democratic Party operatives and put the CNBC moderators into their place. Shades of how many of these candidates will manage and take control of any negotiations with world leaders such as Putin and others where Obama has failed.
Bush continues to slide, now losing what support he has, some of which has gone over to Rubio. The Jeb Bush campaign has now entered the death gasps stage according to trends, his failure to join in, challenge and manage the CNBC "moderators" was seen by the Republican base as yet another sign that he would be incapable to manage and negotiate with challenges from world leaders such as Putin.
Yesterday's victory of Bevin is seen by many as a victory for Trump and outsiders such as Carson. Carson is leading Hillary in a recent poll if they were the nominees, where Carson beats Clinton by 5+ points in a recent RealClear Politics poll.
The rest of the candidates just seem to fall short to me and/or are establishment politicians, same old, same old, all talk, do nothing but the will of their special interest donors and owners.
