Posted on 06/26/2014 8:30:20 AM PDT by cotton1706
What looked like it could be an anomaly is beginning to look like a real thing in Kentucky. The Democratic challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Alison Lundergan Grimes, is leading in a new poll from Public Policy Polling (PPP) by 2 points, on the heels of McConnell’s primary win. That’s right — if this is McConnell’s post-primary bump, he’s in trouble.
The poll contains a flood of bad news for McConnell. Eighty-nine percent of respondents are more likely to vote for a candidate who will pass legislation to create jobs. By an 80%-14% margin, voters (including 70% of Republicans) want a candidate that will close tax loopholes on millionaires. Seventy-eight percent of voters want a candidate who will end gridlock and partisanship. Seventy-six percent want a candidate that will make sure that the rich and corporations pay their fair share of taxes, and by a margin of 63%-31% voters oppose cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations.
Mitch McConnell opposes everything that Kentucky voters said they supported in the paragraph above. What’s even worse for McConnell is that voters strongly oppose what he supports. McConnell has been a vocal supporter of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. McConnell has personally blocked a wide range of job creation bills in the Senate, and he has publicly admitted that he is using gridlock as a strategy to destroy the Obama presidency.
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If I can make it any clearer, I will: I OPENLY ADVOCATE THE DEFEAT OF REPUBLICAN SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL OF KENTUCKY.
He is a very dangerous man. He has ceded enormous power to the position of Majority Leader in numerous “handshake agreements” with Harry Reid. He thought he would be Majority Leader by now but all the Establishment’s worthless nominees (including Mitt Romney) went down in flames in November, 2012. He lusts after power and such a man should never be granted it.
There are a number of seats that can be gained to make up for McConnell’s loss.
Cochran will lose Mississippi, had cochran been able to win the primary in an honest honorable way I would have done what I’ve always done, support the gop primary winner with money, work, and the votes of myself and family. cochran, his handlers, the barbours and the Mississippi gop can go to hell. It’s time to burn the barn and salt the earth.
We can frustrate the Senate if we hold the House. The only issue is Supreme Court nominees.
Even McConnell was willing to let a Senate seat go Democrat for a term. His strategy was centered around the idea that he had a better chance at retaking the Democrat-held seat in a red state than he would if a Tea Party conservative held the seat outright. McConnell didn't want the conservative coalition to grow in the Senate, because he knows he can't control it.
If McConnell thinks it's better to let a Democrat who can be ousted later have it instead of the uncontrollable conservative who will stay, then so do I.
Good-bye McConnell!
-PJ
Public Policy Polling (PPP) is a left-wing Democrat outfit and skew all their polls favorably toward left-wing Democrats. Therefore, they have no credibility and I put no stock in their polling results.
Ah, another one who enjoys being pissed on by the GOPe’s.
They will continue to give it as long as you enjoy taking it.
“Lastly, it is almost sad logging in here now sometimes. Post after post, thread after thread of people rooting for Democrats to defeat Republicans.”
There are two republicans that definitely deserve defeat for their treachery, Graham and McConnell (and maybe Cochran but he’s senile and others worked for him). They don’t deserve votes just because they call themselves republicans.
How about “to hell with Democrats’...
Amen
Amen
To see long standing uhh sitting elderly eGOP senators turned out for younger lib folks.. Oh the horror of it all.. for all of us.
This is what is likely?
No, This is certain..
and the NRSC made it happen.
“Ditch Mitch in KY.
Ditch Cochran in MS.”
Ditch alexander in Tennessee, but try to do it with a Conservative, Vote Joe Carr.
100% Correct, tenmountainman!
The turtle may not win this race?
“How about “to hell with Democrats’...”
Don’t forget the rinos.
Try living in a blue state, with two far left US Senators, trust me you would be more than happy with a senator who votes your way 70 or 80% of the time, versus two senators who now vote 0% the way you would want them to. There is nothing perfect in politics. It is an ugly dirty business, always has been, always will be. The late Sen. Jesse Helms was the closest thing we had to perfection in the US Senate during my lifetime. But he was a rarity.
I live in KY. I’m a bevin man that will vote for the democrat.
Agree. The GOPe Has to be be eliminated starting with the leadership. Cantor gone, McConnell gone is a good start.
To bad the Crying drunks remains.
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