Yeehaw!

No, no, don't be scared. HoHo hasn't taken over Upper Left. I'm pretty excited, though, by this news out of Kentucky.

"Democrat Ben Chandler won a special election Tuesday for a vacant U.S. House seat formerly held by Gov. Ernie Fletcher, a Republican. Chandler's victory ended a losing streak for the Democratic Party.

Chandler, who had great name recognition after two terms as attorney general, but had lost decisively to Fletcher in the gubernatorial election in November, defeated Republican state Sen. Alice Forgy Kerr of Lexington. A Libertarian candidate, Mark Gailey of Berea, also was on the ballot.

With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Chandler had 83,786 votes, or 55 percent. Kerr had 65,155 or 43 percent. Gailey had 2,947 votes or 2 percent. "

Two things worthy of note in this one, I think. One was that the R's targetted this race bigtime, with Hastert personally stumping for Kerr and offering a rich plate of tobacco flavored pork if the voters would get in line.

The other is that Chandler spread ads around heavy hitters in the lefty blogosphere and generated a terrific financial return, which means there's gonna be at least one Congressman who knows we're out here.

One more step on the path to majority...