The Lesser Of Two Evils

Voters in nearby KY-6 have a choice between Democrat Ben Chandler and Republican Andy Barr.  unfortunately, there's very little difference between the two.  Chandler was part of the Blue Dog Stupak coalition that almost scuttled health care reform, and, well...Andy Barr has his own optics problems.

Until last year, the Idle Hour Country Club in Lexington, Kentucky, had no African American members. Now lifetime member and 6th Congressional District Republican nominee Andy Barr is finding himself in the awkward position of explaining his connection to what was until very recently an all-white club -- in the middle of a hotly contested election campaign against incumbent Rep. Ben Chandler (D).

Politico's Alex Isenstadt reports the Republican's campaign has confirmed that Barr -- a top-tier NRCC "Young Gun" -- and his family are "active in the club." As the Lexington Herald-Leader reported last year when former Kentucky college star and NBA player Sam Bowie was accepted as the club's first black member, Idle Hour has "remained a symbol of exclusivity and old divisions based on race and class in Lexington" even as the state has become more accepting of diversity in the workplace and private life.

Barr's campaign told Politico that news of his lifetime membership at Idle Hour was nothing but the Chandler camp "resorting to cheap, personal attacks," in the words of Barr's campaign manager. 

A cheap personal attack it may be, but as a person running as Congressman for all of KY-6 (and not just presumably the white part) Barr still owes voters a real big explanation as to why he's a lifetime member.  On the other hand, Ben Chandler is still leading Barr, but...he's still a Blue Dog, and one of the most annoying ones at that.

Your choices are someone who's going to vote against Obama 99% of the time and 80% of the time.  Not much of a choice, like I said.