[hga]

A state with Democratic governor, lieutenant governor and one of two legislative bodies is "solidly red"??? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky#Executive_branch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_House_of_Representati...) Not to mention the top vote counter (Secretary of State) and Attorney General? In Wikipedia's list of elective state offices, only the Commissioner of Agriculture is a Republican.

Kentucky is as about as "red" as the current Federal government; even the DailyKos article you link to is self-refuting, first claiming it's "one of the only reliably red states" and then claiming "the biggest factor of all [in its claimed success] is Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear".

As I note elsewhere in this thread, Idaho is the only truly Red state implementing a full state exchange, although the map you cite claims it's not full. And that turns out to be in theory temporary, further reading my source (http://www.healthinsurance.org/idaho-state-health-insurance-...) it's in the process of building its own and depending on the Feds for 2014.

[MaysonL]

Kentucky is as about as "red" as the current Federal government

Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul would disagree... (although of course, given that Obama is somewhere to the right of Nixon on most issues, it's not so far off)

[hga]

But do Speaker Greg Stumbo, and most especially Larry Clark, the Speaker pro Tempore since January 4, 1993 (sic), disagree?

Do I really have to explain that state officials run state governments, not the state's elected Federal representatives who do their thing in far off D.C.?