Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Kentucky Senate: McConnell (R) 52%, Grimes (D) 44%
Rasmussen Reports ^

Posted on 10/17/2014 11:04:33 AM PDT by sunmars

Seventy-six percent (76%) of Kentucky voters say they have already made up their minds how they are going to vote, and McConnell leads 55% to 45% among these voters. Among the 24% who still could change their minds, the candidates are tied at 41% apiece, with 17% opting for a third-party candidate or undecided.

Among the 84% of Kentucky voters who say they will definitely vote in this contest, McConnell leads 53% to 44%.

Grimes has the support of 73% of Kentucky Democrats and 16% of the state’s Republicans. McConnell earns 83% backing from his fellow Republicans and 24% of the vote from Democrats. He also has a 21-point lead among voters not affiliated with either of the major parties.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 2014; elections; grimes; kentucky; lundergangrimes; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell; polls; randsconcerntrolls; senate
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-99 next last
To: winoneforthegipper
But idiots on here who think this man holds any value to America at all.

ANY Republican that can help Republicans control the Senate if a conservative President is elected in 2016 is of value. A conservative President with vision, a mandate AND a Republican controlled congress is the only hope for real change in the near future. McConnell will carry the water for such a President.

You're like a black welfare recipient blaming racism for everything and accomplishing nothing but making others feel around you feel miserable.

You have no political strategy. Why not just stop following politics and start planning the second civil war?

41 posted on 10/17/2014 11:45:12 AM PDT by Kazan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: MrB
if the GOP won 2/3 of each house - how many Obama policies would they reverse?

At the very least, they'd reverse anything polls were telling them is unpopular.

Your pessimism is revolting and undermines anything conservatives can hope to accomplish.

42 posted on 10/17/2014 11:46:48 AM PDT by Kazan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines; cotton1706
Last I checked, McConnell had a lifetime ACU rating of 96%.

You never can trust the ACU rating anymore.

It's been gamed for some time now.

However, if you take a look at the average of major conservative rating agencies, you get a much more honest look at the so-called "Conservative" McConnell:

McConnell (KY) - 2014 - 79% (Average) - 62% (CReview) 80% (Heritage) - 87% (CFG) - 92% (ACU) - 73% (FreedomWorks)

Hat-tip to Cotton1706 for the great job of aggregating these ratings on a regular basis.
43 posted on 10/17/2014 11:47:19 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: SoConPubbie
the fact that he will stab conservatives in the back each and every time his Chamber of Commerce Masters want him to.

Not if conservatives can stop eating their own and nominate and elect a conservative President that will set the political agenda. McConnell will carry the water for the President under that scenario.

But, any conservative elected is going to need a Republican majority in the Senate to get things done.

44 posted on 10/17/2014 11:49:04 AM PDT by Kazan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Kazan; MrB
At the very least, they'd reverse anything polls were telling them is unpopular.

Yea, that's why just yesterday, Boehner came out and stated it would be much easier to get Amnesty (A.K.A. Comprehensive Immigration Reform) passed with the Republicans in charge of the Senate.

Even though the majority of Republicans and Independents, and therefore, Americans are against it.

The only around here that is revolting are those advocating for the status-quo where the GOP-E leadership is concerned.
45 posted on 10/17/2014 11:49:40 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: Kazan
Not if conservatives can stop eating their own and nominate and elect a conservative President that will set the political agenda. McConnell will carry the water for the President under that scenario.

Yea, just like McConnell maneuvered to allow many ugly bills to get to the Senate floor, knowing they would pass in a Democrat Senate.

Yea, he's mister reliable! NOT!
46 posted on 10/17/2014 11:51:00 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: SoConPubbie
you're the reason we have turds like Mitch McConnell and Boehner in leadership positions that move the party constantly left.

It's up to the newly elected conservatives and ones already there to stop them from doing so. The Republican party is moving to the right regardless of McConnell or Boehner.

47 posted on 10/17/2014 11:52:01 AM PDT by Kazan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: SoConPubbie

And you’re the reason that we have leaders like Mr. Obama and Mr. Reid. Enjoy wallowing in your delusions. If you think that Ronald Reagan would have every behaved like you, you are beyond help.


48 posted on 10/17/2014 11:52:18 AM PDT by centurion316
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: winoneforthegipper
Celebrating a Mitchie Poo win is the last thing I would expect on Free Republic.

Ronald Reagan would be celebrating. Of that you can be certain.

49 posted on 10/17/2014 11:55:03 AM PDT by centurion316
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: SoConPubbie

Nonetheless he VASTLY preferable to his liberal Dem opponent.

Last I checked McConnell is....

pro-life
pro-Second Amendment
pro-traditional marriage
pro-coal
pro-oil
pro-nuclear
pro-drilling
pro-Keystone
pro-business
pro-defense

In addition, he voted against....

1) Obamacare
2) The Porkulus
3) Dodd-Frankenstein
4) Crap and Trade
5) Harry Reid
6) BHO’s SCOTUS appointments.

Is he perfect? Of course not. No one is. Ronald Reagan would be called a RINO by some people around here. There is no satisfying purists. Nothing in life is perfect, least of all politics. We have to work with what we have.


50 posted on 10/17/2014 11:55:53 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: centurion316
And you’re the reason that we have leaders like Mr. Obama and Mr. Reid. Enjoy wallowing in your delusions. If you think that Ronald Reagan would have every behaved like you, you are beyond help.

Nope, it's the horrible Progressive Liberal candidates like Mitt Romney, his supporters (like you), and those who refuse to be steadfast in their principles that are to blame.

In real terms, it is Mitt Romney who is really to blame.

When your GOP candidate does the following, he is toast from the start: 1. supported Abortion
2. Supported Gays in the Military. 3. Supported implementing his own version of Socialized Medicine keeping parts of Obamacare..
4. Supported Global Warming.
5. Supports Amnesty
6. Was anti-2nd Amendment (Assault Weapons Ban).
7. Implemented Gay Marriage all by himself in Massachusetts, even while knowing that the manner he implemented it in was totally un-constitutional.
8. Tax everything in sight while Governor of MA.

If this is what is running against Obama, and he refuses to fight against Obama, mostly because his policies either agree with Obama's or his policies are Obama-Lite, Is it any wonder that Mr. Inevitable lost the election?
51 posted on 10/17/2014 11:58:19 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Is he perfect?

Your problem, and our problem, is that this clown is in a leadership position and he purposefully allows things to get to the floor when he could stop them. He is not leading.

Furthermore, he is a traitor to conservatives because he is attacking tea-party conservatives in the primaries and doing everything he can to make sure they don't win.

Add to that, that he supports Amnesty, and all the pretty words you just posted are meaningless.
52 posted on 10/17/2014 12:00:38 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Ronald Reagan would be called a RINO by some people around here.

B.S.

You are full of it.

Seems anytime a GOP-E supporter is losing an argument, they pull out this JackAss argument.

It never was true.
53 posted on 10/17/2014 12:02:01 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: SoConPubbie
Ya know, it's one thing to calmly say, "The Republican in this race is too liberal for my taste, so I'm going to leave that line blank."

I admit I've done that a couple of times in my voting history. And I expect I'll do it on occasion in the future. The GOP does not own me.

It's quite another thing to go off on tirades about how Sen. Roberts is a leftist tool, or how Mitch McConnell is worse than Obama. Clear signs that the tinfoil is impeding brain activity, IMO.

54 posted on 10/17/2014 12:03:33 PM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: SoConPubbie

Some people were attacking him. He doesn’t have the right to fight back?

George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan also supported various forms of amnesty too.

But I would still enthusiastically support them over their opponents.


55 posted on 10/17/2014 12:04:43 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: SoConPubbie; Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

TBEL: “Last I checked, McConnell had a lifetime ACU rating of 96%.

You never can trust the ACU rating anymore. “

And what is the conservative rating of McConnell’s Dem opponent AND the Dems in the Senate?

THAT is the choice — as a “conservative” — do you want a Republican or a Dem controlled Senate? Do you want to keep Harry Reid as Majority Leader or not?

The reason I put “conservative” in quotes, is because anyone claiming to be a conservative, criticizing Republicans but wishing for a Dem win is hardly a genuine conservative.


56 posted on 10/17/2014 12:05:06 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
The Top Ten Bad Votes of Senator Mitch McConnell
By Josh Withrow
01/22/2014

Top 10 Bad Votes by Mitch McConnell

1. McConnell Voted to Let Harry Reid Fund ObamaCare (2013, RCV 206) Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted to end debate and allow Senate Democrats to re-insert funding for ObamaCare into the Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government. Although McConnell did vote against the final bill, he and all Republicans knew that voting for cloture to end debate would allow Senator Harry Reid to fund ObamaCare by a party-line vote, and thus a vote for cloture was a de facto vote to fund ObamaCare.

2. McConnell Voted for the Fiscal Cliff Tax Hike (2012, RCV 251) The fiscal cliff was a fake crisis created by Congress and the president. In which President Obama threatened to shut the government down if Republicans refused to massively raise taxes. In response, Senator McConnell personally negotiated with Vice President Biden and produced a New Year’s Day 2013 fiscal cliff deal that raised payroll taxes on 77 percent of U.S. households and contained no real spending cuts.

3. McConnell Voted for the Ineffective “Super Committee” Debt Hike (2011, RCV 123) During the 2011 debt ceiling impasse, McConnell came up with the idea of allowing President Obama to increase the debt limit three times in exchange for allowing Congress a symbolic vote of disapproval each time. McConnell’s idea carried the day and he voted to pass the Budget Control Act, which allowed over $2 trillion in new debt. In return, taxpayers got stuck with the “super-committee”, which failed to come up with any agreement on targeted spending cuts and gave us the across-the-board sequestration cuts instead.

4. McConnell Voted for the Wall Street Bailout (T.A.R.P.) (2008, RCV 213) Senator McConnell voted for the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. Taxpayers should never have been forced to pay for the reckless lending practices of the big banks. McConnell took credit for being a major part of negotiating the bailout, and called the passage of T.A.R.P. “the Senate at its finest.”

5. McConnell Voted to Bail Out the Housing Market (2008, RCV 186) Senator McConnell also voted to bail out the government-sponsored mortgage lending companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The risky lending activities of these organizations were a major factor in creating the housing bubble that led to the financial collapse of 2008, yet McConnell and the Senate voted to allow Fannie and Freddie to borrow up to $300 billion of the taxpayers’ money.

6. McConnell Voted to Increase the Federal Minimum Wage (2007, RCV 42) Senator McConnell voted for the Fair Minimum Wage Act that increased the federal minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to $7.25 per hour in 2007. Raising the minimum wage is a bad idea because it reduces employment especially among low-skilled workers. The cost of raising the minimum wage is passed onto consumers in the form of higher prices for goods and services.

7. McConnell Voted to Give the Government Unprecedented Surveillance Powers (2006, RCV 25) In spite of warnings by 4th Amendment and privacy advocates, Senator McConnell voted to make most of the USA-PATRIOT Act’s provisions permanent in 2006. He also voted for the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which granted immunity to U.S. telecommunication companies for giving information about their customers to the government without a warrant (2008, RCV 168). Together, the “Patriot Act” and the FISA Amendments Act authorized unprecedented surveillance powers that have been used by the FISA courts to allow bulk data collection on U.S. citizens without a warrant. Yet McConnell called the Patriot Act “one of the most important and overdue pieces of legislation in a generation”, and declared that perhaps “it did not go far enough”.

8. McConnell Voted against Eliminating the Federal Ethanol Mandate (2005, RCV 138) Senator McConnell voted to table an amendment that would have eliminated the federal mandate that forced ethanol to be blended into the fuel supply. The ethanol mandate is a market-distorting disaster that has increased the cost of gasoline, while environmentalist groups admit that it is actually bad for the environment (not to mention your car).

9. McConnell Voted for Massive New Energy Subsidies and Regulations (2007, RCV 430) Senator McConnell voted for final passage on an omnibus energy bill that created massive new subsidies for green energy development, while also tightening environmental regulations in some areas. The bill massively tightened fuel mileage requirements for passenger vehicles and created a new renewable fuels standard, both of which have increased the cost of both cars and fuel. Also, this is the bill that started the infamous phase-out of incandescent light bulbs.

10. McConnell Voted for Medicare Part D (2003, RCV 457) Senator McConnell voted to pass Medicare Part D, a massive entitlement expansion that conservatives rightly predicted would tremendously expand the deficit and add trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities to the federal rolls.

57 posted on 10/17/2014 12:06:34 PM PDT by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: Eric Pode of Croydon
It's quite another thing to go off on tirades about how Sen. Roberts is a leftist tool, or how Mitch McConnell is worse than Obama. Clear signs that the tinfoil is impeding brain activity, IMO.

Let me clear up your confusion.

Roberts, given his voting record, is perfectly acceptable.

McConnell, because of his perfidy by maneuvering for and allowing horrible bills to escape committee to be passed by a Democrat Senate, by attacking conservatives during the primaries and doing everything he can to defeat them, and by retreating on just about everything he could while supposedly leading the senate, is not acceptable.

It's not acceptable, if you are a conservative.

If your simply a Republican first, and your conservative principles are more like suggestions, then I can understand why you are either confused or concerned where my posts are concerned.
58 posted on 10/17/2014 12:08:02 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: Theophilus

And how did Harry Reid vote — do you want him to continue to be Majority Leader?


59 posted on 10/17/2014 12:08:24 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]

To: Innovative
There is valid reason to criticize those who want the GOP to be so much of a "big tent" that it has no issues on which it differs with the Democrats.

But we have a number of folks here who think it's best that they spend all day kicking people out of the tent.....kick!! kick!! kick!!....until lo and behold, there are only two of them left and they start eyeing each other suspiciously.

No wonder this site does not have anything like the political clout it used to.

60 posted on 10/17/2014 12:09:06 PM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-99 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson