YARMUTH. As Garance notes, Jim Yarmuth is hardly a conservative Democrat; Northup went after him for some of his past writings in Leo, which while fairly tame by the standards of an alternative weekly is still, well, an alternative weekly. Indeed, Northrup's campaign accused Leo of taking Yarmuth's columns offline. I saw Yarmuth in the Democratic primary debate, and he came off quite strong. He'll make a great congressman. I'm not sure I'd say that his victory was entirely unexpected, though. Northrup has won her last two elections by a couple points each, and so was ripe for a fall to a Democratic wave. The Kentucky 3rd is mostly just Louisville, which is liberal by Kentucky standards.
--Robert Farley