Homophobic Fearmongering Fails in Kentucky

Today is election day in various parts of the country (but not in Chicago!). There are a few governor's races to be had, but the one I'm most interested in is the Kentucky race. I didn't get a chance yesterday to ask if any of our Kentucky readers got a call from Pat Boone in support of the corrupt, indicted incumbent Ernie Fletcher and pinning the "homosexual agenda" on his opponent, Steve Beshear. Pat asked voters if they wanted Kentucky to be another San Francisco. Setting aside the fact that Kentucky is a landlocked commonwealth and San Francisco is a city by the sea, I'd be willing to bet that San Francisco has better restaurants. And would this mean Kentucky's getting cable cars? Such a call might be a wee bit alarmist, but it's probably fair enough game in an election. Another call that was going around, however, doesn't appear to be quite so up and up. It claims to be from Fairness.org (here's a link, but their server seems overloaded at the moment, so I couldn't check it myself), the Website of the Fairness Campaign, a gay rights organization in Kentucky, and it extols the virtues of Beshear and his gay-friendly policies. The Fairness Campaign denies setting up the call, of course, because even though Beshear has had a commanding lead in the polls, why introduce something that would be counterproductive. The Fletcher campaign denies it, and Eric Kleefeld at TPM Election Central even tracked down a former Karl Rove operative now living in Kentucky who also claims to know nothing of any such call. It didn't have the desired effect, as the almost-complete results show Beshear a winner by more than 17 points, but it'll be interesting to see if anything develops over the next few days. And I'm still curious to hear if any of our Kentucky readers received either of these calls.