Political Parties and Primaries in Kentucky by Miller Penny M.;Jewell Malcolm E.; & Malcolm E. Jewell

Author:Miller, Penny M.;Jewell, Malcolm E.; & Malcolm E. Jewell [M. Miller Penny & E. Jewell Malcolm]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Table 14. Continuity of Activists’ Support, 1983 and 1987 (1979/83 Panel Members)

Table 15 is based on data from the new participants in our 1987 study. It shows that Beshear supporters had come primarily from the Collins and Sloane campaigns, as did the majority of Wilkinson and Brown activists. Stumbo, of course, drew almost 58 percent of his workers from his earlier gubernatorial campaign group. Carroll’s base of support came from members of Collins’s organization. More than one-third of these 1987 elite workers had not participated actively in the 1983 primary.

In terms of continuity of support, 64 percent of the elite workers who supported Beshear in 1987 (panel members and new participants) stated that they worked actively in his 1983 lieutenant governor’s electoral contest. Of those who worked for Stumbo in both primaries, 91.8 percent made up their minds to work again for him in 1987 very early in the campaign.

We have not found that there are some well-defined, clear-cut factional alignments extending over successive primaries in the period from 1979 to 1987. We do not see the Brown-Atkins workers moving en masse to Stumbo, who obviously had to develop his own base of support. We even see some slippage in support for Sloane from 1979 to 1983 and for Stumbo from 1983 to 1987. The continuity of support we find is neither strong nor consistent, and it certainly does not indicate the presence of any underlying factional system.

Table 15. Continuity of Activists’ Support, 1983 and 1987 (New Participants in 1987 Study)

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