Republican victories in governor's races in Kentucky and Mississippi underscored the Democratic party's woes in the South.

* Republican victories in governor's races in Kentucky and Mississippi underscored the Democratic party's woes in the South. President Bush campaigned for both winning Republican candidates. The Democratic candidates were too wise to invite national Democrats to campaign for them. When the Democratic candidate in Kentucky tried to make an issue of Bush's economic policies, the strategy backfired by tying him to the national Democratic party. We hope that Ernie Fletcher and Haley Barbour will bring reformist conservative governance to Kentucky and Mississippi, respectively. The political action now moves to Louisiana, where conservative wunderkind Bobby Jindal is running and the Democrats are trying out their last survival strategy in the South: Making wild claims to scare black voters into coming to the polls in force for them.