,but don't let him anywhere near Ldrs.(Ted Cruz ;) and levers of powers.
Topple MM et.al. from power.
Posted on 09/07/2014 10:27:42 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
A new poll released Sunday morning shows U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell opening up a clear lead over Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race.
An NBC News/Marist poll shows McConnell’s strongest positioning yet. His 8-point lead among likely voters, 47 percent to 39 percent, is outside the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points. Libertarian candidate David Patterson pulled 8 percent.
Chuck Todd, moderating his first episode of “Meet the Press” on Sunday, noted the success Grimes has had fundraising when he announced the new numbers.
“In red-state Kentucky, Alison Grimes, a Democrat, tons of money, she’s behind eight,” Todd said. “Not looking very good for her.”
McConnell’s advantage is up significantly from the deadlocked race the same poll found in May when McConnell and Grimes were essentially tied with McConnell nominally leading 46 percent to 45 percent among registered voters.
The most recent poll was conducted between Sept. 2-4, indicating that recent stumbles like the resignation of his campaign manager and the release of a secret recording of McConnell speaking to a Koch brothers retreat have not yet had a detrimental effect on the senator’s re-election efforts.
There also is evidence to suggest that Grimes’ national party identification, combined with a relentless effort by McConnell and his allies to tie Grimes to President Barack Obama, has taken its toll on the Democratic challenger.
The poll found that Obama’s approval rating in Kentucky is a woeful 31 percent.
Meanwhile, an online poll released by CBS News/New York Times/YouGov shows McConnell leading Grimes 47 percent to 42 percent.
Two other polls released in the last week also show McConnell with a small lead.
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I don’t care much for mitch but she is a loud-mouth obnoxious Hussein Obama supporter.
So, do we root for the Democrat?
I wouldn’t vote for the debt increasing McConnell but the GOPe machine has Barack Obama’s collapsing popularity helping their cause.
So, do we root for the Democrat?
I know I won’t.
I don’t live in KY, and I promised myself to never hold my nose to vote again, but if Turtlehead is reelected, I will will only be slightly sad. However, let’s not give McTurtlehead get majority leader status.
This will be bad news to certain useful idiots on the Right.
I have no fondness for McConnell but the one I really put down is Grahamnsey.
please note/ping above.
Well, I sure wish this was a story about Matt Bevin opening up a lead on Grimes. It isn’t, though, so it’s either an DC insider like McConnell, or increasing Harry Reid’s chances of keeping the Majority Leader job by voting for Grimes.
IMHO, this race has become especially critical now that Roberts in Kansas looks to be in trouble. If the GOP loses both of these seats in November, the likelihood they would get control of the Senate is, if not nil, awfully slim.
An essential part of the solution is regaining the Senate. That's a matter of more R's than D's, the quality of the R's being irrelevant.
So, if I were voting in Kentucky, I would hold my nose and vote for Mitch, the only R in the race. Then, after the dust settles, assuming success, namely that there are there are more R's than D's in the Senate of 2015, my only recourse would be to trust that the new GOP caucus chooses a new Leader.
Which one? There are 2 running.
I see not a single Team Mitch sign anywhere in Red Counties in KY. All I see are Alison signs.
I do not know a single Conservative out here that plans to vote for McConnell. They plan on writing-in or leaving it blank - or staying home.
I think the election may be close, but I will not be surprised if Grimes wins. If she does, it is because McConnell DESERVES to lose.
McConnell is every bit the enemy to Conservatism that Grimes would be and moreso as leader of the ‘nowhere else to go’ embarrassment-to-their-party ideology.
For Conservatives, the election for national office in KY is a LOSE, LOSE proposition this year.
The only interesting thing to watch will be which team machine will employ more corruption to secure the seat and whether the Democrats are hungrier to get Grimes into office than Republicans are to keep the Post Turtle.
I can tell you Conservatives are not going to make an effort to vote for the self-avowed ‘crusher’ of Conservatives who declared war on us.
We’re done holding our nose. A quarter century of that same tired crap has gotten us where we are today.
You go ahead and keep practicing insanity by your lonesome.
The rest of us are done being rape victims and working to wake the rest of the party up to the fact we need to go somewhere else for our ideology to have a home.
So if and when they regain the senate they will certainly reduce spending, cut taxes, reverse Obamacare, reverse the onerous corporate tax laws....they will pursue a rigorous conservative agenda.....like they did last time they controlled the senate, right?
So ... How does electing Senator Alison "Half his Age" Grimes improve that situation?
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