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KYPolitics: Quiet before the storm: 3rd CD race
May 15, 2008
KYPolitics.org
Louisville will be the key battleground to watch this election as three important races converge in what could be a national headline grabber. A beneficiary of all the attention may well be Anne Northup, who represented Kentucky’s largest city in the U.S. House for 10 years, fending off the assaults of Democrats and the Courier-Journal all the while.
Following her surprise defeat in 2006 to liberal-left Democrat John Yarmuth, Northup jumped back into politics the following January to take on fellow Republican Governor Ernie Fletcher. She did well in fund-raising and put $1 million of her own money in the race and held the incumbent to 50% of the vote in a three-person primary battle. Many didn’t think Northup would jump back in this year’s congressional contest against Yarmuth. The field suddenly cleared when a major contender, Erwin Roberts dropped out, so Northup opted to plunge ahead.
Today, the calculus is a bit different than two years ago. Barack Obama, an African-American with great appeal in Louisville, will be at the top of the Democratic ticket along with either Bruce Lunsford or Greg Fischer in the U.S. Senate slot. Opposite them on the GOP side will be John McCain for president and U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell.
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