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Poll shows McConnell opening up clear lead over Grimes in Kentucky
Bluegrass Politics / Lexington Herald Leader ^ | 9/7/2014 | Sam Youngman

Posted on 09/07/2014 10:27:42 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat

A new poll released Sunday morning shows U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell opening up a clear lead over Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race.

An NBC News/Marist poll shows McConnell’s strongest positioning yet. His 8-point lead among likely voters, 47 percent to 39 percent, is outside the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points. Libertarian candidate David Patterson pulled 8 percent.

Chuck Todd, moderating his first episode of “Meet the Press” on Sunday, noted the success Grimes has had fundraising when he announced the new numbers.

“In red-state Kentucky, Alison Grimes, a Democrat, tons of money, she’s behind eight,” Todd said. “Not looking very good for her.”

McConnell’s advantage is up significantly from the deadlocked race the same poll found in May when McConnell and Grimes were essentially tied with McConnell nominally leading 46 percent to 45 percent among registered voters.

The most recent poll was conducted between Sept. 2-4, indicating that recent stumbles like the resignation of his campaign manager and the release of a secret recording of McConnell speaking to a Koch brothers retreat have not yet had a detrimental effect on the senator’s re-election efforts.

There also is evidence to suggest that Grimes’ national party identification, combined with a relentless effort by McConnell and his allies to tie Grimes to President Barack Obama, has taken its toll on the Democratic challenger.

The poll found that Obama’s approval rating in Kentucky is a woeful 31 percent.

Meanwhile, an online poll released by CBS News/New York Times/YouGov shows McConnell leading Grimes 47 percent to 42 percent.

Two other polls released in the last week also show McConnell with a small lead.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: grimes; lundergan; mcconnell
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1 posted on 09/07/2014 10:27:42 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

I don’t care much for mitch but she is a loud-mouth obnoxious Hussein Obama supporter.


2 posted on 09/07/2014 10:29:17 PM PDT by boycott
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To: boycott

So, do we root for the Democrat?


3 posted on 09/07/2014 10:30:13 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

I wouldn’t vote for the debt increasing McConnell but the GOPe machine has Barack Obama’s collapsing popularity helping their cause.


4 posted on 09/07/2014 10:31:25 PM PDT by Nextrush (OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

So, do we root for the Democrat?


I know I won’t.


5 posted on 09/07/2014 10:31:41 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I don’t live in KY, and I promised myself to never hold my nose to vote again, but if Turtlehead is reelected, I will will only be slightly sad. However, let’s not give McTurtlehead get majority leader status.


6 posted on 09/07/2014 10:35:36 PM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: Republican Wildcat

This will be bad news to certain useful idiots on the Right.


7 posted on 09/07/2014 10:38:59 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Republican Wildcat

I have no fondness for McConnell but the one I really put down is Grahamnsey.


8 posted on 09/07/2014 10:44:13 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: Reddy; Mr Ramsbotham; cotton1706; All
I guess your right, keep Sen. "Mumbles/Reid's *itch" McConnell in office
,but don't let him anywhere near Ldrs.(Ted Cruz ;) and levers of powers.
Topple MM et.al. from power.

9 posted on 09/07/2014 10:52:22 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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To: Republican Wildcat

please note/ping above.


10 posted on 09/07/2014 10:53:52 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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To: cynwoody
This will be bad news to certain useful idiots on the Right.

That's me!

Turtle is part of the problem, not part of the solution.


11 posted on 09/07/2014 10:58:24 PM PDT by 867V309 (Crusade: the only solution.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Well, I sure wish this was a story about Matt Bevin opening up a lead on Grimes. It isn’t, though, so it’s either an DC insider like McConnell, or increasing Harry Reid’s chances of keeping the Majority Leader job by voting for Grimes.

IMHO, this race has become especially critical now that Roberts in Kansas looks to be in trouble. If the GOP loses both of these seats in November, the likelihood they would get control of the Senate is, if not nil, awfully slim.


12 posted on 09/07/2014 11:11:36 PM PDT by DemforBush (A Repo Man is always intense.)
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To: 867V309
Turtle is part of the problem, not part of the solution.

An essential part of the solution is regaining the Senate. That's a matter of more R's than D's, the quality of the R's being irrelevant.

So, if I were voting in Kentucky, I would hold my nose and vote for Mitch, the only R in the race. Then, after the dust settles, assuming success, namely that there are there are more R's than D's in the Senate of 2015, my only recourse would be to trust that the new GOP caucus chooses a new Leader.

13 posted on 09/07/2014 11:11:41 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
So, do we root for the Democrat?

Which one? There are 2 running.

14 posted on 09/07/2014 11:14:27 PM PDT by LaybackLenny (Sarah Palin - Last Man Standing (Ironic, ain't it?))
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To: Republican Wildcat

I see not a single Team Mitch sign anywhere in Red Counties in KY. All I see are Alison signs.

I do not know a single Conservative out here that plans to vote for McConnell. They plan on writing-in or leaving it blank - or staying home.

I think the election may be close, but I will not be surprised if Grimes wins. If she does, it is because McConnell DESERVES to lose.

McConnell is every bit the enemy to Conservatism that Grimes would be and moreso as leader of the ‘nowhere else to go’ embarrassment-to-their-party ideology.

For Conservatives, the election for national office in KY is a LOSE, LOSE proposition this year.

The only interesting thing to watch will be which team machine will employ more corruption to secure the seat and whether the Democrats are hungrier to get Grimes into office than Republicans are to keep the Post Turtle.

I can tell you Conservatives are not going to make an effort to vote for the self-avowed ‘crusher’ of Conservatives who declared war on us.


15 posted on 09/07/2014 11:17:48 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: cynwoody
So, if I were voting in Kentucky, I would hold my nose and vote for Mitch, the only R in the race.

See, there's your error.

R means nothing unless you think Mccain's "Wacky Bird" comment is valuable to Conservatives.


16 posted on 09/07/2014 11:20:43 PM PDT by 867V309 (Crusade: the only solution.)
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To: cynwoody

We’re done holding our nose. A quarter century of that same tired crap has gotten us where we are today.

You go ahead and keep practicing insanity by your lonesome.

The rest of us are done being rape victims and working to wake the rest of the party up to the fact we need to go somewhere else for our ideology to have a home.


17 posted on 09/07/2014 11:21:28 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: cynwoody

So if and when they regain the senate they will certainly reduce spending, cut taxes, reverse Obamacare, reverse the onerous corporate tax laws....they will pursue a rigorous conservative agenda.....like they did last time they controlled the senate, right?


18 posted on 09/07/2014 11:24:16 PM PDT by GilesB
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To: GilesB
So if and when they regain the senate they will certainly reduce spending, cut taxes, reverse Obamacare, reverse the onerous corporate tax laws....they will pursue a rigorous conservative agenda.....like they did last time they controlled the senate, right?

So ... How does electing Senator Alison "Half his Age" Grimes improve that situation?

19 posted on 09/07/2014 11:29:08 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody
So ... How does electing Senator Alison "Half his Age" Grimes improve that situation?

It gets the turtle out of office.


20 posted on 09/07/2014 11:32:11 PM PDT by 867V309 (Crusade: the only solution.)
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