Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is in trouble in Kentucky

glenbeck.com ^ | 1/15/14

[cotton1706]

The 2014 midterm elections are just around the corner, and the race for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) seat is heating up. Glenn spoke to Sen. McConnell’s primary challenger, Matt Bevin, in November and was impressed with his conservative values. New polling data shows Bevin is slowly but surely closing a very large gap against Sen. McConnell. And there is even worse news for Sen. McConnell – he leads his presumed Democratic challenger, Alison Lundergan Grimes, by just one point in the polls.

If the Republican candidates for Senate in
2014 were Mitch McConnell and Matt Bevin,
who would you vote for?

Mitch McConnell: 53%

Matt Bevin: 26%

Not sure: 21%

If the candidates for Senate next year were
Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat
Alison Lundergan Grimes, who would you vote
for?

Mitch McConnell: 43%

Alison Lundergan Grimes: 42%

Not sure: 15%

If the candidates for Senate next year were
Republican Matt Bevin and Democrat Alison
Lundergan Grimes, who would you vote for?

Matt Bevin: 39%

Alison Lundergan Grimes: 38%

Not sure: 24%

[Still Thinking]

Erps, already in the **minority**

[taildragger]

Do you approve or disapprove of Senator Mitch
McConnell’s job performance?

Approve: 46%

Did anyone catch the meaning of this 46% approval ?

Any incumbent below 50% for a Senatorial Race is in deep doo-doo.

Bevin must beat him in the Primary or as Glenn notes the seat IS lost....

[Sparticus]

Did anyone catch the meaning of this 46% approval ?

Any incumbent below 50% for a Senatorial Race is in deep doo-doo.

Bevin must beat him in the Primary or as Glenn notes the seat IS lost....

Approval isn't the same as voting preference, though. The number that matters is the one you get when you ask "which of these candidates do you prefer".

[SeminoleCounty]

Bevin knocking off McConnell would be huge

The PhonyCon Liberal naysayers on here are getting tiring. DU must be full today

McConnell must be defeated

[skinkinthegrass]

Retire these Jack@$ Gutle$$ Old Party B@$@$D$; don't
show them any respect for their previous actions / deeds.
BOOT ' EM ALL OUT!
Support Matt Bevins, Defeat Sen. *itch "Mumbles" McConnell. *(D.C.-GOP / E)
Support JD Winteregg, Defeat (SotH) Rep. John *HIC! / HIC!* Boehmer. *(D.C.-GOP / E)

Support Linda Vega or Dwayne Stovall, Defeat John Cornyn *(D.C.-GOP / E)
Support Joe Carr, Defeat Lamar Alexander *(D.C.-GOP / E)
Support Lee Bright, Defeat Lindsey Graham *(D.C.-GOP / E)
Support Chris McDaniel, Defeat Thad Cochran *(D.C.-GOP / E)
Support Dr. Milton Wolf, Defeat Pat Roberts *(D.C.-GOP / E)

*District of Criminals-Gutle$$ Old Party / E$tabli$hment

[VRWC For Truth]

Buh bye McCornhole.

[deport]

Did anyone catch the meaning of this 46% approval ?

****************

The higher disapproval numbers came from the liberal participants and became
positive with the more conservative participants. That said McConnell isn’t scoring
very high with his supposed GOP constituents.

[Hugin]

I wouldn’t call a 2 to 1 lead being “in trouble”.

[deport]

I wouldn’t call a 2 to 1 lead being “in trouble”. ************ True but the next question involves the democrat not the gop primary opponent. .... If the candidates for Senate next year were
Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat
Alison Lundergan Grimes, who would you vote
for? Mitch McConnell: 43% Alison Lundergan Grimes: 42% ...

[Conscience of a Conservative]

True but the next question involves the democrat not the gop primary opponent. .... If the candidates for Senate next year were
Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat
Alison Lundergan Grimes, who would you vote
for? Mitch McConnell: 43% Alison Lundergan Grimes: 42% ...

True. And that number is only going to get worse as Bevin relentlessly attacks McConnell over the next few months. As others have noted, the risk in trying to primary an incumbent (particularly a "prominent" one like McConnell) is that you may end up handing the seat to the other party. A race like this may end up being an all-or-nothing affair - either Bevin knocks off McConnell in the primary and rides a conservative wave in the general, or Bevin loses but damages McConnell enough for Grimey to take the seat.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Ditch Mitch!

[terycarl]

McConnell couldn’t lose that election if he died....please! get real!!

[terycarl]

Did anyone catch the meaning of this 46% approval ? Any incumbent below 50% for a Senatorial Race is in deep doo-doo.

nonsense...the people who actually answer the question certsinly do express an opinion....but the remainder of the population are too damned dumb to understand the question.....I have no time for the ignorant who consider themselves Americans....it is frightening to watch the late night shows and see people on the sidewalks who have no idea of who the vice-president of the U.S.is....they know who Justin bieber is but have no idea of when the civil war was fought nor the reason that it is of historical importance......and these idiots have a vote equal to yours....PATHETIC