Today is Election Day in a few states, including Kentucky, where there is a hard-fought (read: nasty) gubernatorial race between scandal-tarred Republican governor, Ernie Fletcher, and Democratic nominee Steve Beshear.

Just yesterday, in an effort to boost his prospects among conservative voters, Fletcher put up a display containing the Ten Commandments in the state Capitol Rotunda, and a robocall from Pat Boone is warning that Beshear will work for “every homosexual cause.”

Now comes word of a second anti-Beshear robocall with an anti-gay-themed message. This one purports to be from an actual gay rights organization in Kentucky and touts Beshear’s support for “the homosexual lobby.” But the group, Fairness.org, denies being responsible for the call. The Fletcher campaign also denies any involvement.

We’re trying to track down the source of this call. If any of our Kentucky readers have received this latest robocall, shoot us an email. We want to hear from you.

A spokesperson for the campaign of the Kentucky governor tells TPM Election Central that the bogus anti-gay robocall used against his Democratic opponent was not from them. “To be honest with you, I haven’t heard the call myself,” said communications director Jason Keller. “If I had, I don’t recall what it said.”

A couple of our best informed readers pointed out that Karl Rove’s former aide, Scott Jennings, recently returned to Kentucky after leaving his White House Post. Jennings has set up shop as director of strategic development at Peritus Public Relations, a public affairs firm based in Louisville.

Did Jennings, they wanted to know, have anything to do with that bogus robocall campaign against Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s Democratic opponent?

Good question.

Our Eric Kleefeld just tracked Jennings down and reports that Jennings denies any involvement with the robocalls. Jennings, who said he’s still living in a Kentucky hotel following his recent move, only found out about the robocalls when he read the local newspaper and hasn’t received the call himself.

Mukasey is on his way to becoming AG, but Dems will have another chance to prove that they really oppose waterboarding. What will they do?

Dana Perino stumbles through the minefield that is the U.S.-Pakistan relationship, in today’s White House press briefing:

When I posted this morning’s episode of TPMtv with Rudy Giuliani’s record of gonzo fibs — I was a 9/11 recovery worker, I’m a torture expert from my dad’s waterboarding mobsters in the 1980s, I caught a 68 pound largemouth bass on 2 pound test line — I thought there were other examples out there that we hadn’t remembered. And I asked readers to send in examples.

Well it turns out that Steve Benen has been keeping a list of Rudy’s exaggerations over at his site. Now, some of Steve’s example don’t fit the model we were getting at. So one has to do with exaggerating comments Hillary made. That’s a good catch in itself. But it doesn’t fit with the pattern of personality-cult-in-making kinds of silly claims of expertise and experience.

You know, the way that most dictator’s bios have them not only being experts in power politics but also accomplished scholars, great singers, script writers and various other nonsense.

But there’s one really choice one Steve has that really belongs in the line up. Rudy apparently claims that he’s been “studying Islamic terrorism for 30 years.” That one comes from an August article in Time. So basically, back in the 1970s and 1980s, Rudy was already a student of Jihadism. Time’s Amanda Ripley shows pretty handily that all the available evidence shows that Rudy gave little or no attention to Jihadism before 9/11. But I’m less taken by the falsity of the claim that the boffo personality-cult-in-his-own-mind wackiness of it. Is there any topic he can allow himself not to be the most expertest person there is on the subject?

Go easy on Kerik’s corruption because he’s the one who ended crime in New York? Greg Sargent fact-checks Rudy’s latest bamboozlement.

Late Update: Greg has more on the media largely ignoring Rudy’s claim that he, um, waterboarded mafia suspects.–DK

Missing Islamo-fascism Awareness Week already? Can’t wait another year (or six months, or whenever it is that the David Horowitz Freedom Center next wants to rally donors)? Well, never fear. For those of you pining away for more grandiosity from the left wing radical turned right wing extremist, Max Blumenthal his has own take on the most urgent issue of our time: protecting David Horowitz from the violent academic left.

With 39.6% of the votes counted in Kentucky, scandal-plagued Republican Governor Ernie Fletcher is losing to his Democratic opponent by a 60.8%-39.2% margin.

When he was first elected by a ten-point margin in 2003, Fletcher was the first Republican to win a gubernatorial race in Kentucky since 1967, and the state GOP had high hopes that they were turning this border-South state solid red.

I guess the last four years haven’t worked out so well.

8:05 p.m. … With over half the votes in, Democrat Steve Beshear’s 20-point margin is holding up. Fletcher has yet to concede defeat.

8:12 p.m. … The Herald-Leader has declared Beshear the winner.

8:29 p.m. … The Courier-Journal has also declared Beshear the winner. Beshear hasn’t yet given a victory speech, and Fletcher hasn’t given his concession.

Despite all my knowledge of political statistics, it’s hard for me to actually think of a time in recent history when an incumbent governor lost a general election this badly.

This race didn’t get very much media play, and it turns out there’s a good reason why. The polls have only been closed for less than an hour, but the Clarion-Ledger has already declared Governor Haley Barbour (R-MS) the winner in his campaign against Democratic trial attorney John Eaves.

10:47 p.m. … It looks like the Republicans are on their way to a near-sweep of the other statewide offices. With almost half the votes in, the incumbent state attorney general is the only Democrat who is ahead in his race.

12:36 a.m. … Apparently there’s one fly in Barbour’s ointment. Democrats have retaken a majority in the state Senate, after losing it a year ago due to some conservative Dems switching parties.