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News networks call Kentucky gubernatorial race for Democrat Steve Beshear

It was­n’t a close race: Demo­c­rat Steve Beshear trounced Repub­li­can David Williams and inde­pen­dent Gate­wood Gal­braith Tues­day to win anoth­er four-year term as Kentucky’s gov­er­nor. Beshear, who made an unlike­ly polit­i­cal come­back in 2007 after los­ing a bid for gov­er­nor in 1987, rolled to vic­to­ry tout­ing his job-cre­a­tion efforts and his han­dling of the state […]