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Kentucky Getting Ready to Ditch Mitch As Democrat Grimes Leads McConnell 48%-46%
politicsusa.com ^ | 6/26/14 | Sarah Jones

Posted on 06/26/2014 8:30:20 AM PDT by cotton1706

What looked like it could be an anomaly is beginning to look like a real thing in Kentucky. The Democratic challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Alison Lundergan Grimes, is leading in a new poll from Public Policy Polling (PPP) by 2 points, on the heels of McConnell’s primary win. That’s right — if this is McConnell’s post-primary bump, he’s in trouble.

The poll contains a flood of bad news for McConnell. Eighty-nine percent of respondents are more likely to vote for a candidate who will pass legislation to create jobs. By an 80%-14% margin, voters (including 70% of Republicans) want a candidate that will close tax loopholes on millionaires. Seventy-eight percent of voters want a candidate who will end gridlock and partisanship. Seventy-six percent want a candidate that will make sure that the rich and corporations pay their fair share of taxes, and by a margin of 63%-31% voters oppose cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations.

Mitch McConnell opposes everything that Kentucky voters said they supported in the paragraph above. What’s even worse for McConnell is that voters strongly oppose what he supports. McConnell has been a vocal supporter of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. McConnell has personally blocked a wide range of job creation bills in the Senate, and he has publicly admitted that he is using gridlock as a strategy to destroy the Obama presidency.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 2014midterms; elections; ky2014; mcconnell
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To: don-o

Well if Mitch gets re-elected he will vote for amnesty. If the Dem gets elected he will vote for amnesty. So what difference does it make?


81 posted on 06/26/2014 9:16:37 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

What’s the point of 80% when they will then pass out flyers calling you a racist, and recruit black Democrats for votes to stay in office?

I live in Michigan, and I know how left-wing a senator can be, but I’m not whoring myself for any GOPEer that talks like a Dem like these clowns are.


82 posted on 06/26/2014 9:16:37 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: tennmountainman

Uuuhhh....

Have you ever considered “...sending a strong message...” to the DEMOCRATS?

I’m sorry but I can’t see how electing, or “helping” to elect, DEMOCRATS will “save” America.

I don’t see how your “my way or the highway” ultimatums work in a real democracy or a real republic.

And I don’t see how the damage done to America by allowing Obama to replace one or more of our “Originalist” Supreme Court Justices with new “Evolving Constitution” Supreme Court Justices can be permitted.

So, I’m sorry if Mitch McConnell once upon a time did something that hurt your feelings...

...but I think that preserving America from a perverse application of Obama’s appointment power is a far, far more important issue than making YOU “feel good”....


83 posted on 06/26/2014 9:18:04 AM PDT by pfony1 (Add just 6 GOP Senators and we "bury" Harry)
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To: cuban leaf

So you admit and advocate supporting Democrats.


85 posted on 06/26/2014 9:20:12 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: don-o
Still waiting to find out how electing Democrats furthers the Conservative cause. You best listen to Ted Cruz. He knows how things actually work.

I'll try to make it simple so even YOU can understand. You have a blood-bath in November, send a message to the smug GOPe, send the McConnells and the Boehners and the Cochrans packing, and maybe, just maybe, we can start the process of building a Party that actually IS different from the Democrats. It will take time! You've got to be patient, don-o! I know it's hard, but try to focus...we can't keep going down this path we're currently on. Try to think: Get rid of the BAD GOP...get rid of the BAD GOP...they're like weeds in the garden...they're like weeds in the garden...

OR, you can keep voting for a GOP that just keeps putting more and more of their own Democrat clones in place, like the senile Cochran.

If you can't see this, then there's no hope for you.

86 posted on 06/26/2014 9:21:00 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: chris37

Time for a reverse Mississippi. TEA should vote for the democrat. Balance things out, and teach em a lesson.


87 posted on 06/26/2014 9:22:41 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: ifinnegan; cuban leaf
So you admit and advocate supporting Democrats.

Oh, good Lord, some of these people are hopeless, cuban leaf...

88 posted on 06/26/2014 9:22:43 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: chris37

Or maybe Mitch could get his dem voters to cross over and vote GOP again. lol


89 posted on 06/26/2014 9:23:26 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino

Vote FOR the best person even if it means a write-in campaign.
Choosing the lesser of two evils means endorsing evil!
Do you suppose this is why MILLIONS never vote?


90 posted on 06/26/2014 9:27:43 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: cotton1706

91 posted on 06/26/2014 9:28:00 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: pfony1

The message to Democrats is clear: You created this mess, you own it. We’re not going to allow liberal Republicans to accept it as a Republican problem if R voters never supported the liberal Dem policies which created it.

Better to have a Dem taking accountability than to put a RINO back in who will take ownership of failed Dem policies and ‘reach across the aisle’ to share blame and author more failed policies.


93 posted on 06/26/2014 9:28:19 AM PDT by Justa
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To: don-o

Are you serious?

“Remember Mississippi” is the rallying cry for some sorely overdue reverse chaos.

War is hell, but McConnell is the Beau Bergdorf of the Republican Party. Propping up this guy facilitates more, not less, of open destruction of the TP movement, which McConnell is engaged in.

They are truly forming a Uni Party to consolidate power, by combining with Marxists to crush us. Favors are being funded and exchanged between them as we speak.

Sheesh. Cut McConnell loose. Cantor loses and McConnel loses, only then do we take any meaningful lasting ground.


94 posted on 06/26/2014 9:29:05 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Wrong.

You are an agent of the Dems (and worse) whether you know it or not.

She is 36 years old If this woman wins she will be in the Senate for 40 years.

You are working to establish a liberal Democrat lifetime Senate seat in Kentucky.


95 posted on 06/26/2014 9:30:33 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: DesertRhino

He could always pass out walking money, call democrats racists
and promise to bring home the pork.

It worked for Cochran.


96 posted on 06/26/2014 9:31:03 AM PDT by tennmountainman (True conservatives don't like being pissed on by their own party!)
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To: don-o

“you actually prefer a Senator who certainly will kowtow to Harry Reid, every time? “

Tell us when Mitch has EVER stood up to the dems and it wasn’t a façade for a prearranged deal. For bonus points, tell us how to “put the heat” on an elected official besides unseating them. Make a phone call? Send a letter?

The ONLY heat they understand is money and votes. They get their money from the big guys and their lobbyists, not 20 dollar checks from ma and pa. That leaves us exactly one way to apply heat, election day.

By voting out Mitch, we apply heat to all the others. And even possibly teach an honest lesson to the dem we put there in his place. Mitch has lead one thing and one thing only,,, the war against TEA. Screw him.


97 posted on 06/26/2014 9:31:26 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: COBOL2Java
I'll try to make it simple so even YOU can understand. You have a blood-bath in November,

Understanding rage is not at all difficult. That is what I am hearing. Following your fantasy is not at all difficult. Accepting all that as a strategy to advance Conservatism is where it gets shaky.

LISTEN to Ted Cruz. He knows how the real world works.

98 posted on 06/26/2014 9:31:29 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: tennmountainman
Don-o just sent me a private e-mail to inform me that he reported me to the Hall Monitor and had one of my posts removed. I guess the truth hurts.

You've got to be kidding me. That's rather adolescent...

99 posted on 06/26/2014 9:33:18 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: don-o

McConnell isn’t the barn. The permanent structure that we count on. He is molded hay inside it. Needs to be removed and burned because it’ll sicken the livestock.


100 posted on 06/26/2014 9:35:13 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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