Commentary: Editor’s Notebook: In a blue wave, one nonpartisan electoral victory that’s very good for democracy

By: Linda Blackford

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: November 4, 2026

Words: 580

Last Updated: 5 days, 4 hours ago

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The blue wave that swept America made Tuesday a very good night for university presidents and law firms and Haitian refugees and immigrants, and all the other people who have suffered the worst excesses of a vengeful President Donald Trump and his feckless administration.

That wave didn’t sweep Kentucky so much as splash it around the edges; still, the flipping of the 6th Congressional District and nine …

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