Posted on 07/28/2014 1:02:10 PM PDT by cotton1706
Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes' chances of upsetting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's re-election bid may have brightened with the release of new polling data and a pledge from former President Bill Clinton to campaign on her behalf.
A July 19 Human Events/Gravis poll of 1,054 registered Kentucky voters found McConnell running even at 45 percent with Grimes.
"With only 10 percent of the voters undecided, it is hard to see either candidate breaking out. It really looks like it will be close through to the end with the decision turning on turnout," Doug Kaplan, the president of Gravis Marketing told Human Events.
Allison Moore, a spokeswoman for the McConnell campaign, told the paper that findings from a June poll they conducted of 807 likely voters found McConnell leading Grimes 49 percent to 42 percent.
She said McConnell is "well positioned for re-election in Kentucky, and every day his campaign is growing stronger."
Grimes' campaign has received a commitment from Clinton to attend an Aug. 6 fundraiser, according to The Hill.
Clinton appeared at a fundraiser in February 2013 and helped to raise more than $600,000 for Grimes’ campaign, reports The Hill. Grimes’ father, Jerry Lundergan, helped manage Bill Clinton's Kentucky campaigns.
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probably just as shocked at how ruthlessly his own party turned on him.
Why would he not know that the Barbour machine would do anything and everything? If that’s true then he isn’t prepared for the big league.
The Tea Party orgs are their own worst enemy. As soon as the Tea Party rallies began in 2010, the rush to be the “self proclaimed” leaders began, by many wildeyed libertarian types who “we Tea Party citizens” didn’t pick or like. That threw cold water on the truly grassroots movement as soon as the passion that gave us 2010 ended.
TTV is different they are around to spotlight stuff like the MS runoof BS. TTV was hindered by the IRS.
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