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How Kentucky's State House Got So Red--And Why Democrats Are Positioned To Reverse Some of …
Trent Garrison attended Kentucky State University, where he studied public administration, and then earned a PHD in geoscience from University of Kentu…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Jan 17
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Washington Isn’t the Only Place Where There Is Talk of Impeachment
Thousands of people across the country are dying each day due to COVID-19. Here in Kentucky, the COVID-related economic slowdown has left a lot of peop…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Jan 15
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“The Conscience of the Nation and the Church”
Louisvillian Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons literally wrote the book about the millions of Christians who have progressive views and lean towards the Democ…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Jan 7
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Come Write for the Bluegrass Beat
I’m looking for people who want to contribute guest posts to the Bluegrass Beat. The bad news is that I can’t pay you -- at least not yet. I’m looking …
Perry Bacon Jr.
Jan 2
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America's Political Divide May Be More About Racial Attitudes Than Race
Some people submitted questions to me. They were all fairly difficult questions, so here is my best attempt at answering them: “WTF Kentucky, how does …
Perry Bacon Jr.
Dec 31, 2020
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Should Andy and Daniel Try To Be Like Mike (Adams)?
In the last edition of the Bluegrass Beat, I asked readers to email me about: 1. What they were satisfied with in terms of government/politics/policy i…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Dec 30, 2020
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Thanks for Reading
This has been one of the hardest years of my life and I assume yours as well. But one of the bright spots for me has been trying to grapple with some o…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Dec 17, 2020
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Who Speaks For Black People?
A brief disclaimer. I want to emphasize that we are dealing in this piece with fairly complicated and fraught questions where there are probably dozens…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Dec 16, 2020
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How A Charles Booker Senate Campaign Could Reshape Kentucky's Democratic Party
Charles Booker is well-positioned to launch a campaign sometime early next year to try to defeat incumbent Kentucky U.S. Senator Rand Paul in 2022. His…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Dec 15, 2020
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How "Cities Make Democrats"
I tend to assume that elected officials generally know more about electoral politics than I do. After all, many of them have large teams of campaign st…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Dec 13, 2020
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How the Protests in June and July Did And Didn’t Change America
The protests in June and July in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd were by some measures the largest movement in American history. But loo…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Dec 11, 2020
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Winning Michigan From the 502
Eric Hyers, who grew up in non-Boston-area Massachusetts (North Adams, in the western part of the state), worked on campaigns from Nevada to Rhode Isla…
Perry Bacon Jr.
Dec 10, 2020
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