WASHINGTON — Some Kentucky Democrats hold a theory about Charles Booker’s U.S. Senate candidacy: He will generate excitement with his rhetoric, raise considerable sums of national money from liberals who loathe Rand Paul and might even parlay the experience into a cable contributorship on MSNBC or CNN.
But come next November, he will lose. And it likely won’t even be close.
“He won’t break 40%,” said Jim Cauley, a chief of staff to former Gov. Steve Beshear, who ran Barack Obama’s first Senate race in Illinois. “You’re misreading the Kentucky electorate if you’re thinking running as a progressive will win.”
