A Narrow But Significant Win for Hillary Clinton in Kentucky

When she was last the center of national attention, Alison Lundergan Grimes, a Democrat who is Kentucky’s Secretary of State, was being soundly defeated by Mitch McConnell in a 2014 Senate race that her Party had hoped to win. Shortly after ten o’clock last night, Grimes delivered more heartening news to the Democratic establishment, declaring that Hillary Clinton was the unofficial winner of the Kentucky primary. With about ninety-nine per cent of the votes counted, Clinton was running ahead of Bernie Sanders by just eighteen hundred votes. But Grimes, whose office was overseeing the election, said that she believed the lead would hold up, and the Sanders campaign didn’t contest her claim.