Posted on 05/12/2014 3:52:32 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016
That’s among likely voters too, although when you’re looking at a lead this big, it doesn’t much matter which slice of adults you’re using.
I thought next Tuesday’s primary night open thread would be rip-roaring food-fight fun between “true conservatives” and RINOs. Instead, we’re destined for a snoozer. Note the tea-party numbers, in particular. Bevin never got traction even among his ostensible core constituency.
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Damn shame.
Watching from afar (Texas) it seems to me that Bevin’s only pitch is “I’m not Mitch.” While that would certainly secure the Freeper vote I guess Kentucky pubbies don’t feel ol’ turkey neck is that bad.
Amazing there isn’t something better and willing to step up and take out Gobbler Neck.
/johnny
<Sigh> No doubt just because I broke with my usual practice and shot Bevin some campaign $$ to try to help out.
Karl Rove has got to be just burying Kentucky in rotten PAC money. McConnell's record alone couldn't support a gap like that.
Was this ever more than a part-time effort by Bevin? Did he take a leave of absence and hold events throughout the state? Or did his primary effort consist of putting ads on the air?
TP supporting McConnell 2-to-1?
I have said it over and over that these next two elections and maybe longer, voters are going for experience. They voted for newbies the last two elections and it has not turned out well. Voters want experience and you can see it beginning with the primaries.
When Cruz ran in Texas he wasn’t facing an incumbent but I remember the campaign stated several policy positions that I could get excited about. His campaign said very little about the establishment scum Dewhurst whom he beat. Bevin may be a great candidate, and I want him to win regardless, but as someone who has been interested in the race I can’t name one specific agenda item.
Experience is one thing, career politician/geriatric rot is another. I might remind you we lost 10+ Senate seats in 2012 running establishment types, a fact overlooked in the talking point about the few Tea Partiers that lost.
Don't live in Kentucky, so don't know what ads are airing, but with such a huge lead, it feels as though Rove's group wouldn't waste money on this race.
There just aren't that many instances of a sitting U.S. Senator losing in their own party's primary, and this is a special case, as McConnell is the GOP leader in the Senate. Has there ever, in all of U.S. history, even been a case of a Senate leader losing in a statewide primary?
This is why McConnell and Boehner are so safe, they're party leaders, one the Speaker and the other the possible next Senate Majority Leader. Primary voters are simply not going to toss away that kind of influence for their state/district for a freshman with no power or sway.
*sigh*
FUMM
Excellent point. While I still see the GOP favored by a bit to take back the Senate, I am not at all confident. The worst they can nominate is who they are nominating ... establishment/career politicians.
No doubt just because I broke with my usual practice and shot Bevin some campaign $$ to try to help out.
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LOL. Same here (from TX). Does he keep sending you .51¢?
The bigger worry is their winning it back and what they intend to do with it. It’s the business as usual crap that got us nowhere the last time they had it (2003-07).
It’s not outside the realm of possibility Bevin could end up doing even worse when people get into the polling place and see there are actually 2 other names on the ballot.
His ads have been terrible from the beginning - he is the ads himself attacking McConnell directly rather than using a narrator - that’s not a good idea - all of the blowback from “attacking” comes back on a candidate personally that does that.
The cockfighting rally incident which he elevated into a major scandal by denying he knew where he was when he was speaking and continued to do so even after video surfaced destroyed any chance he may have had at getting any traction in this race. I never expected him to win, but hoped he might be a candidate for future viability in another race - but after that, not so much.
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