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...race between Rep. Geoff Davis, a conservative Republican and former Army Ranger with the 82nd Airborne Division, and former congressman Ken Lucas is considered one of the closest in the nation, and the stream of dollars and big-name campaigners who have visited the district has flowed faster than the nearby Ohio River...
...Democrats in Kentucky, we don't represent the same type of values you see in Connecticut, or in the national party for that matter," said state Rep. Dennis Keene, a Democrat . "We are more of a blue-collar conservative type of voter...
...Kentucky voted for Bill Clinton twice, but has been trending Republicans since at least May of 1994, when Rep. Ron Lewis shocked the state's Democratic establishment to win a special election in central Kentucky that many say helped presage the GOP sweep that fall. And this Northern Kentucky district, stretching through 24 counties along the top of Kentucky, from the suburbs of Cincinnati all the way east to the coal fields on the West Virginia border, is its most conservative enclave, where President Bush won 63% of the vote in 2004. Davis won the seat easily two years...
...Still, President Bush's approval ratings, even in friendly Kentucky, have steadily declined this year, and Davis felt the need to pounce on what he called the House leaders' failure to respond to questions about former Rep. Mark Foley's interest in young pages working in the House. In addition, as Keene points out, both candidates in this race are pro-life, pro-guns, and anti-gay marriage...
...went into this believing that being a UC rep for me, a person of color, would be in some ways more meaningful than if I were just part of a majority group and won,” he said. “They gave statistics on how few minorities have done the UC in the past, [and] how it was typically viewed as an all-white organization...