McConnell Trailing in Polls in Kentucky (Vanity)

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2014/Magellan_KY_0614.pdf ^

[TigerClaws]

Rhino Hunt Alert! (Link is to PDF of a poll.)

49%-46%

[xzins]

There have been important legislative initiatives recently regarding abortion.

BTW, I agree with you about Susana Martinez.

A Cruz/Martinez ticket would be conservative, pro-life, pro-American, and pro borders. It would woo Hispanics, and Martinez, a successful prosecutor and governor, would be a female presence to blunt any female rhetoric from Hillary Clinton.

I would love to give them the chance to run, and if they get the nod, I’d love to have a majority in both House and Senate for them to build on.

[JRandomFreeper]

It doesn't matter as much what Lindsay, McRino and McConnell think.

When they last had the majority, those liberal republicans actively worked with the dems to derail conservative legislation. Remember the gang of 14?

/johnny

[Din Maker]

How can we promote Susana Martinez as a candidate and start a move to get her to run?

[NYRepublican72]

Of course. However, it’s better than having the Democrats in charge.

[JRandomFreeper]

It's the same. Liberals are liberals. They are the enemy.

I'm a conservative, not a republican. I don't care if the republican party goes away forever, if they remain liberal.

/johnny

[Yardstick]

So you’ll work for the conservative Patrick, then turn around and encourage the enabling of a liberal pro-abort Democrat.

[JRandomFreeper]

I'll do whatever it takes to politically destroy liberal republicans. Period. The liberal republican leadership does more to enable pro-abortion democrats and their judges than one dem senator does.

There is no chance of destroying liberal democrats, but there is a possibility of destroying liberal republicans. I'll start there, and do the hard work to make that happen.

/johnny

[Yardstick]

Writing someone in is the same thing as not voting. It is not an out. Either you help the impure conservative or you help the liberal pro-abort Democrat. That’s the choice.

[xzins]

I would write a letter to Ted Cruz and explain the positives of a Martinez running mate.

I’m sure he’s already seen it, especially if matched against Hillary, but it wouldn’t hurt to show the idea some early support

[Yardstick]

But in your attempt to destroy the impure conservative, you’re enabling a pro-abort liberal Democrat. You can’t have one without the other. For some reason your thinking completely ignores this.

[catfish1957]

Do you know who McConnell is? House? Anyway who is to say that this senate seats lost if a RINO castigated to the wind. KY is conservative enough that I think it will be pulled off.

[Yardstick]

Well, okay, you say a liberal senator is outweighed by an impure conservative in leadership. But in a close Senate a vote is a vote. If we had had one more impure conservative back back when Obamacare was being voted on, we wouldn’t have Obamacare.

[deport]

Race analysis from RCP from whence this poll is linked.

Kentucky politics can largely be explained by the state’s congressional districts. The 1st
and 2nd Districts are (roughly) the Jackson Purchase and Pennyrile areas of the state, which
vote like the Deep South. The 3rd and 6th Districts represent urban Louisville and greater
, while the 4th District is the Republican suburbs of Cincinnati and Louisville. The 5th
District is an amalgam of two older districts, one of which was old mountain Republican territory,
and one of which was heavily unionized and Democratic coal mining country. The name of the game
for Republicans is to run well in the 4th and 5th and hold their ground in the 1st and 2nd, while
Democrats try to add to their bases in Louisville, Lexington, and the coal mining areas of the 5th.

The problem for Democrats is that the coal mining areas of the 5th have steadily drifted away
from them over the past decade. Sen. Rand Paul owes much of his 2010 victory to outsized Republican
margins in the area, margins that were matched by Republican presidential candidates in
2008 and 2012. At the same time, Democrats have managed to enjoy continued success at the local
level, and hold most statewide offices.

That encapsulates the million-dollar question for 2014, when the very unpopular Senate majority
leader, Mitch McConnell, will face off against Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes. If
Grimes can push into the historic Democratic base in coal country, this election will probably
stay close. If not, the 44 percent of the vote that Grimes is currently receiving will probably
represent something of a ceiling for her.

[bert]

A direct quote from a Kentucky union coal miner grandmother......”I just can’t vote for that boy with th funny name”

[JRandomFreeper]

It's not about impure conservatives. It's about liberal republicans that don't even match their own party platform.

You enable the pro-abort democrats when you vote for liberal republicans that support their agenda. The liberal republican leadership in the legislature has proven that they support the liberal agenda with all the critical procedural votes that they have given the dems.

/johnny

[X-spurt]

Some stupid write-in for some unknown will do another “smart” move like helping get McAwful in as Guv in VA!

Did you not read that the dem opposing Mitch is not only pro abortion but pro late term abortion? Yeah let’s truly cut off our nose to spite our face!

There is NO PERFECT candidate. In politics it has been and will always be some degree of compromising to achieve a worthy goal. Trying to demand “my way or the highway” is giving America to the liberal socialists (which ain’t very far from libertarian anarchists).

[INVAR]

Well, I WILL NOT be voting for McConnell. I will be writing in a Conservative. I am not voting for a slime who publicly declared war on me.

But it remains to be seen if the McConnell machine can overcome the Obama Machine since he blew such a big wad smearing Bevin for well over a year.

I do predict McConnell WILL NOT trash Grimes as viciously as he did Bevin.

And I do know the Ruling Class GOP would rather a Democrat get his seat than a Conservative.

[X-spurt]

The time for the fight against McConnell was in the Primary. Apparently Kentucky, like Texas had only pisspoor Primary opponents against Cornyn.

[Yardstick]

How has McConnel supported the pro-abort agenda. He is 0% NARAL and 100% NRLC.

[JRandomFreeper]

Every pro-abortion democrat judge that gets passed through the Senate has liberal republican senators voting for cloture, so that a vote can go forward.

They then vote against the judge, but it doesn't matter, because they allowed the vote to proceed when they could have stopped it.

It takes liberal republicans cloture votes to get pro-abortion judges through the Senate.

Those liberal senators can then wave their 'no' vote in front of rubes like you who think they are conservative.

/johnny