Republican Wins Governor's Race in Kentucky

[Freddie Stubbs]

Rep. Ernie Fletcher easily won the Kentucky governor's race Tuesday, becoming the first Republican to lead the state in 32 years, while the GOP hoped to take another Democratic governor's seat in Mississippi.

With 55 percent of precincts reporting, Fletcher -- who got a big campaign assist from President Bush in the campaign's final days -- led with 54 percent, or 339,688 votes, to Democratic Attorney General Ben Chandler's 46 percent, or 285,941 votes.

In both states, candidates tried out slogans and strategies that could well be used in the 2004 presidential race.

In Kentucky, party activists argued that a vote for Chandler would tell the White House its economic policy is a failure. Mississippi Democrats criticized Republican Haley Barbour as a "Washington insider" as Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other top GOP officials came to campaign for him.

more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64671-2003Nov4.html

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