[Political Junkie Too]

Grimes winning is bad on multiple levels. It would also be the BIG story coming out of the election, sucking up the media oxygen and undercutting any GOP gains (or even a Senate takeover).

You are right about that.

A Grimes win in the general against McConnell would allow Democrats to say that the mid-term election was not a referendum on Obama, but that it was a rejection of the Tea Party.

A Grimes win against Bevin would be a different story. That story would be about fueling the GOP feud between establishment and the righ-wing conservatives, and about the Tea Party not being "electable" in an election.

-PJ

[H.Akston]

Very astute, PJT

A Grimes win against McConnell would be analogous to a Coons win against Mike Castle. (By the way I don’t think that would have happened had Castle beat O’Donnell, and I don’t think Grimes can beat McConnell, if he isn’t torn apart by both sides.

A Grimes win against Bevin would be analogous to a Coons win against O’Donnell, except with a change of a red seat to a blue seat, weakening the right and strengthening the left. In DE, blue (Biden’s) stayed blue. So a Grimes win against Bevin would be worse than what happened in DE 2010.