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• 1 Hillary // Dec 12, 2008 at 12:53 pm

  Anyone know how the electors are chosen?

• 2 Jeff Noble // Dec 12, 2008 at 1:33 pm

  The electors are chosen at the state conventions of the two major parties.

  Since McCain carried Kentucky, the electors chosen at the Kentucky Republican Convention will cast Kentucky’s eight ballots, one for each of our six representatives and two senators in the federal congress.

  The Kentucky Democratic Convention also chose a like amount – six congressional delegates and two at-large, plus alternates for all of these, on the outside chance the Obama for Kentucky campaign and leadership was effective in bringing the candidate to Kentucky which it wasn’t, which may have possibly, but not very probably, allowed the opportunity for Kentucky to have been the first “blue” state on the map as opposed to the first “red” state, which it was. I’d like to be able to tell you who we, the Democrats, elected but that was a difficult day for me and somehow I’ve forgotten who the Obama/Beshear slate determined would be our chosen electoral collegiates.

  JN

• 3 jake // Dec 12, 2008 at 1:39 pm

  Garsh – why on earth would that have been a difficult day for you, Jeff? HA.

  According to some folks, nothing ever happened. They say I made it all up.

  And now you say that day was difficult. Why, I never!

• 4 anon // Dec 12, 2008 at 1:43 pm

  so said with tongue firmly planted in cheek.

• 5 Larry West // Dec 12, 2008 at 5:03 pm

  Actually the Congressional District reps were chosen by whatever group managed to wrestle control of the district convention, not the state convention, which just chose the two at-large seats. Since Louisville was in control of the “country club” part of the party, it was one of their own that they chose, rather than a rank-and-file actual Republican.

• 6 Jeff Noble // Dec 13, 2008 at 8:16 pm

  Larry –

  That’s the way we do it as well. The congressional electors are elected at the Congressional Conventions, held in the morning; the at-large electors are elected at the State Convention in the afternoon, all at the same location, which in our case was the Lexington Heritage Center at Rupp Arena.

  I did not mislead intentionally, but apparently did. Again, it wasn’t the best of days for me.

  Until I read Jacob’s follow-up post, I could not have told you who was elected on our side. I can’t honestly say I remember voting for any of the people listed for whom I would have had the opportunity to vote. For several conventions, our 3rd District elector has been my friend Drew “34″ Shryock, who did not attend this year’s convention. At the morning convention, I nominated Drew as a favor. For some reason I thought Brooke Pardue was our elector. Mr. Cauley lives out in one of the 59th LD precincts in Jefferson County, of which there are only four. I’ve seen his name listed as the LD Chair for that district, although I’ve never seen him at a meeting. If Cheri Hamilton’s name had been on a list, I probably would have cast a ballot for her as she and I have been friends for many years and I had the pleasure this year of working with her daughter Victoria in the Yarmuth reelection campaign.

  I’d like to say we don’t have a “country club” part of our Party and maybe we don’t. But, like yours, there definitely was some wrestling of power in the congressional conventions.

  JN

• 7 Larry West // Dec 15, 2008 at 9:47 pm

  Actually, I considered all the anti-NIMBY on the bridge, River-Fields-member Democrats who live in the Prospect area, including our current Congressman, as “country club Democrats.” Anyone with so much money that he gives away a $130000 salary (or whatever it is) fits the bill whether he is an actual member of a country club or not. Give me a Representative who understands what it is like to live from paycheck-to-paycheck like most of us any day, regardless of party. Too bad we didn’t have a chance to vote for one in 2008.

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