Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Kentucky primary

  • President Obama lost more than 40 percent of the vote in Tuesday's Kentucky Democratic primary to the "uncommitted" option — the latest example of the incumbent president failing to win votes in an uncompetitive primary.
  • (Washington Post)
  • Kentucky voters speak about Tuesdays primary election. The only thing of note was that I realized I had been redistricted. It was my understanding that this redistricting would not take effect until next year.
  • (RealClearPolitics)
  • The presidential escapade continues to draw most of the medias attention these days, but there are actually some interesting downticket primaries to watch in Arkansas and Kentucky Tuesday night.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney won the Kentucky Republican presidential primary Tuesday, inching closer to the GOP nomination for president.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Schickel defeated aerospace worker Joshua Turner in a northern Kentucky primary. Schickel is chairman of the Senate Licensing, Occupations and Administrative Regulations Committee. Thayer defeated Ricky Hostetler in a central Kentucky district.
  • (RealClearPolitics)
  • (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful and presumptive nominee Mitt Romney took a commanding lead on Tuesday in early returns in the Kentucky primary, winning 67 percent of the vote with a majority of counties reporting, an official tally showed.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • WASHINGTON — Some presidential primary voters in Kentucky and Arkansas are using the polls to take a swipe at President Barack Obama, denying the incumbent nearly 4 out of every 10 votes cast on the Democratic side.
  • (Washington Post)
  • He took only 30 percent of the primary vote in Kentucky and 26 percent of the vote in Arkansas, a state where Clinton was a clear favorite after her husband served as governor there for more than a decade.
  • (Politico.com)
  • Mitt Romney has won the Kentucky Republican presidential primary, inching closer to the GOP nomination for president. View full Kentucky primary results With no serious opposition left, the former Massachusetts governor easily won Tuesdays primary in Kentucky.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Poll workers saw a slow trickle of voters into the polls across Northern Kentucky for Tuesday's primary election.
  • (Cincinnati.com)

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