“I find it interesting that the race was called for McConnell before the polls closed yesterday with the same percentage in the final that they declared in the late afternoon.
I’ve only experienced something similar like that before in Cook County, IL”
McConnell was well ahead of Bevin in every poll (and there were quite a few) prior to the primary, and, if anything, the primary results were better from Bevin than what the polls predicted. And you think that there was chicanery going on to turn Bevin votes into McConnell votes? You have to face the fact that Bevin just was not very popular among KY Republicans, even among those disappointed with McConnell. Here’s an independent poll from less than two weeks ago that had McConnell leading Bevin by 53%-33% *among Tea Party Republicans*. http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/misc/KYPolls/KY140430/Complete%20May%202014%20Kentucky%20NBC%20News__Marist%20Poll%20Release%20and%20Tables.pdf
How could Bevin win when he didn’t even have a majority of Tea Party Republicans in his column? You can blame Rand Paul’s endorsement, or McConnell’s money (although it should be noted that Bevin raised like $4 million, which ain’t hay), or the Illuminati, but the fact remains that it would have been superfluous for McConnell to have tried any shenanigans in the primary count, because everybody knew that he was going to win big.
Call up Bevin, and ask him whether he believes that more Kentucky Republicans voted for him than for McConnell but that McConnell rigged the vote; I bet you that two of the first ten words that come out of his mouth are “you” and “delusional.”
And as for your claim that “McConnell would have ‘CRUSHED’ whomever ran against him,” well, I beg to differ. McConnell crushed Bevin because Bevin was crushable. Had a first-tier conservative run against McConnell, he would have *tried* to crush him, but would have been unable to do so; perhaps McConnell would have won against a good candidate, but he wouldn’t have crushed him by 25%, since there was real disappointment with McConnell among KY Republicans, as was proven by the fact that a third-tier shyster like Bevin could get 35% of the vote.
Nice roundup on the KY race. Quality tea party candidates need to be extracted at all costs. My own state’s Ted Cruz needs to be the template as an example. Find the closest match, and then just work from there.
I specifically said I found it interesting and noted I had seen that same phenomenon before in Cook County. That's all I said.
We are dealing with a Machine politician and his cronies and stooges here with a complicit media. They are going to do everything to crush anyone who dares challenge their positions of power and control.
with the national media in on it?
Let's see…. The VA, Benghazi, Youtube Videos, Climate Change …. I suppose it's a ridiculous notion to even think that the national media would ever be in on some kind of political corruption or cover-up….. right???? /sarc.
I mean, the media is gleefully reporting tonight that Conservatism IS DEAD. to cheers from the same Ruling Class hacks you congratulate for holding onto power.
We suffered a velvet coup some years back. Everyone pretends it never happened and voting for the Establishment will solve all our ills and fix everything wrong.