REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION AND FRAGMENTATION

IN MANY respects, Kentucky is a competitive two-party state. The Republican party has won seven of nine presidential elections starting in 1956. It held both U.S. Senate seats from 1957 to 1972 and regained one in the 1984 election. In the U.S. House the Republicans have consistently held the mounta...

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Published inPolitical Parties and Primaries in Kentucky p. 225
Main Authors Penny M. Miller, Malcolm E. Jewell
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published The University Press of Kentucky 05.02.2015
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Summary:IN MANY respects, Kentucky is a competitive two-party state. The Republican party has won seven of nine presidential elections starting in 1956. It held both U.S. Senate seats from 1957 to 1972 and regained one in the 1984 election. In the U.S. House the Republicans have consistently held the mountain Republican seat; since the mid-1960s they have consistently held at least one seat in the suburbs of Louisville and northern Kentucky; and since 1978 they have held a Bluegrass seat centered in Lexington. The Republican majority exceeded 60 percent in Sen. John Sherman Cooper’s race in 1966 and in the
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