As totally expected, Ms. AG Jim Hood cruised to reelection for a second term (60%) becoming the only Democrat to hold statewide office in Mississippi.  Viciously attacked by the insurance industry in this storm ravaged state, Hood took it all in stride and remains a force both in his own state and nationally.  Also as totally expected, John Conway, a charismatic trial lawyer, swept to victory in Kentucky and in doing so kept the KY AG office in Democratic hands where it has been since Reconstruction.

For me the most interesting result was the election of my old friend and colleague Steve Beshear at the Governor of Kentucky.   Steve and I were new attorneys general together twenty five years ago and we always seemed to see things the same way.   Steve took a couple of major defeats in runs for other offices and with his new family seemed pretty much resolved to a life of child rearing and private practice.  The incumbent GOP Governor became enmeshed in scandal, however, and now both duty and the voters have called Steve back to the public sector. I wish him all the best as he joins the nine other AG's who currently serve their state's as Governor..