I wanted Bevins to do better in KY and he didn’t. McConnell unloaded both barrels on him early and often and he never recovered.
He did not back down with Grimes.
He is blasting her. I live across the river, and we get his ads here in Ohio. They are to the point, brutal, on the right issues, and they make you wonder how any republican is not stealing these and using them in their own races. That goes especially for North Carolina, a place where the same themes would really resonate.
If Tillis hit her on immigration, he would destroy her. But the GOPe donors would abandon him, so he won’t.
Multiple choice quiz: What is/are the reason/s for Thom Tillis’ impending loss to Kay Hagan on election day?*
A) Mean, nasty Tea Partiers who supported Brannon in the primary
B) Spoiler Libertarians
C) A combination of A and B
* - Note: “Thom Tillis running a terrible campaign and avoiding winning issues because he’s a GOP-E slouch who doesn’t want to make K-street donors mad” was excluded as an option.
What the author means is Mitch is lying through his teeth, just like a Democrat, and some conservatives are suckers.
This is the fundamental problem with McConnell - no desire to extend coattails or craft a national Senate campaign where the winners help the strugglers.
In other words, no vision of what leadership really is.
-PJ
Conservatives who buy what McConnell is peddling are morons.
Yep, N.C. GOP needs to do some housecleaning.
One variable not covered in the above article is the power of incumbency.
Both McConnell and Hagan are incumbents, McConnell deeply entrenched. Incumbents usually win. By now it is safe to say that McConnell will most likely be re-elected. He is an entrenched incumbent and he benefits from other factors as well. KY has been trending strongly GOP in recent presidential and US Senate and congressional elections. BHO’s poll ratings in KY are miserable, he has never come close to carrying the state and his views on coal and other fossil fuels are simply toxic in KY. Further, the party out of power usually wins in midterm elections, especially in the 6th year of an incumbent administration. Finally Grimes is simply way to the left of most KY voters. It’s that simple. The safe money is clearly on McConnell here.
NC poses more challenges. Traditionally a Democrat state but also traditionally conservative and the home of my all time favorite US Senator, the late Jesse Helms. While NC voted GOP in every presidential election from 1980 to 2004, BHO, surprisingly, carried it in 2008. MR barely carried it in 2012.
This tells me that a lot of libs have moved into NC in recent years and changed its politics much as they have done in neighboring VA which also was not too long ago considered a reliably conservative and a GOP stronghold.
That all said, Tillis does have a strong chance given that the party out of power usually does well in midterm election especially in the 6th year of an incumbent administration. The NC US Senate race will simply come down to a turnout election. Once again the party out of power tends to be more motivated in midterm elections giving Tillis at least a 50/50 shot. But one can never underestimate the power of incumbency and money which Hagan has going for her.
I just heard that ‘The King’ (no not Obama, but NASCAR’s King - Richard Petty) is going to do ads for Tellis.
Without Helms, NC perishes; might as well merge with SC.