in mississippi, the mississippi democratic party essentially did not get it together to run a major candidate for governor this year. so mississippi's republican governor phil bryant basically got to run unopposed. he did very well. the other governor's race in the south this week was very, very contested. that was democratic attorney general jack conway losing the kentucky governor's race to republican tea party businessman guy matt bevin. now, kentucky democrats, democrats across the country, really thought jack conway was going to win that race, both because they thought matt bevin was a very beatable fairly eccentric, fairly polarizing guy but also because the polling just told them that very clearly in fact democrat jack conway was going to win that race. he definitely lost that race and by a lot. and today in today's news, one very specific chicken came home to roost on that story. the lexington herald leader newspaper today in kentucky