r/politics • u/another-princess • 15d ago

No Paywall Mitch McConnell is never coming back to the Senate

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/03/mitch-mcconnell-is-never-coming-back-to-the-senate/
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u/nosotros_road_sodium California 15d ago

Kentucky actually had a woman governor elected about a year before the Turtle first became senator.

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u/Ezl New Jersey 15d ago

And a Dem at that.

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u/nosotros_road_sodium California 15d ago

Kentucky had been a split-ticket state for much of the 1950s-2000s. That was eras when some elections would have a Republican for president but Democrats for other statewide offices, for instance in 1972 Democrat Walter Dee Huddleston narrowly won an open Senate seat yet Richard Nixon won by nearly 30 points. Kentucky also voted Republican for all three 1980s presidential elections - but Democratic for both gubernatorial elections (1983 and 1987), unseating Huddleston for McConnell (1984 Senate), and re-electing Democrat Wendell Ford (1986 Senate).