What it really means is people have had eight years of this crap and are done.
Via Washington Times:
Kentucky is a pretty conservative place. President Obama lost the state to GOP nominee Mitt Romney by 22 points in 2012. All the same, it was a big win for the GOP on Tuesday when a Republican emerged victorious in the state’s gubernatorial contest . Voters chose Matt Bevin, a wealthy businessman, over Jack Conway, the Democratic attorney general.
Many observers expected Conway to win, in part because Gov. Steve Beshear, whose term is expiring, is a popular Democrat. Beshear’s appeal in Kentucky is exactly the kind of quirk in the political system that substantiated the old adage, “All politics is local.”