Posted on 10/19/2013 12:26:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Voters in the Bluegrass State aren't pleased with the state of affairs in Washington, and they appear to be taking it out on Mitch McConnell.
The Senate minority leader narrowly trails Kentucky's Democratic secretary of state, Alison Lundergan Grimes, in his 2014 re-election bid, according to a new survey conducted by the Democratically affiliated Public Policy Polling for progressive group Americans United for Change.
Lundergan Grimes leads McConnell by a two-point margin (45 percent to 43 percent), which is within the poll’s margin of error (plus or minus 2.8 percent). Twelve percent of respondents remained undecided.
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Hatch, Cochran, and Grassley have all served in the senate longer than McConnell. Most Republican senators have served longer than Barrasso and Blunt. I guess “seniority” is one of those mysterious things that’s made up as they go along.
You’re absolutely correct, but I am actually glad those guys are not in the leadership. In the end, you really accrue leadership seniority by arm twisting and deal making.
I don’t think Reid is the oldest on the rat side.
“Seniority” as used here is misleading. The leadership team is elected by the party caucus in the Senate, regardless of their length of service.
This is a chain-of-command list.
Sure hope he loses, and maybe then he’ll learn something from the first “kick of the mule”.
Exactly. At this point Rs and Ds (with the exception of Cruz) are just one party....It really no longer matters which side wins, it’s all the same.
You’re joking right? Are you listening to yourself? It’s not Democrats doing our party in. We’re killing ourselves.
Early news flash: the Kentucky doughboy is retiring. For the next year and a half, he’ll be busily feathering his retirement nest. Oh, he’ll go through the motions and make sure he has a nice, well-funded PAC for his “re-election.” But he’ll decide to retire in I’d say the spring.
Heck, he’s probably measured the curtains in his new K street office already.
Grimes probably will get 45% of the vote.
The pollsters just act like Matt Bevin doesn’t exist. I believe Bevin can beat McConnell in the primary and Grimes in the general. I do tend to agree that Grimes would knock off McConnell mostly because Kentuckians are fed up with him. But I don’t think Grimes can beat Bevin. The media and pollsters are trying to give the voters the impression that McConnell’s primary win is a done deal. I don’t think so.
Even if he could, there’d be no way he could win a three-way race against another Republican. Grimes would win with a plurality in the mid 40s, probably.
The Alaska situation occurred because the Democrat candidate was VERY weak, so enough Dem voters crossed over to vote for Murkowski. Democrats would not be voting in KY for the GOP leader (unless they’re voting for him in the primary, since he remains toxic in a general).
I’m a Kentuckian. I’m not happy with McConnell or his pork or anyone else’s pork for that matter.
Reid isn’t the oldest Senator, but the most senior is Leahy of Vermont (now the President Pro Tempore with Inouye’s death), as he was elected in 1974 (Reid also nearly was elected that year, barely losing to Republican Paul Laxalt for a Dem open seat. He would win it 12 years later when Laxalt retired).
“...tap into a donor/activist base like the Paul family had developed.”
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Which is why it’s important for Senator Paul to get on board with the tea party and support Matt Bevin.
His opponent doesn’t appear to have much support - he’s raising virtually no money. His past associations with Blumenthal in CT and the fact he’s never been involved in any conservative or Republican causes until he decided to run for Senate gives me pause about how authentic he is. I’m not sensing any sort of a groundswell against McConnell in GOP ranks here - at least not on a scale big enough to cause him any real trouble in a primary. Time will tell, of course.
I’d like to see a poll matching Bevin and Grimes together to see if it is any better than McConnell vs. Grimes. It would need to be the same data set, though, to truly be comparable...this article doesn’t indicate if they also asked the same people about Bevin vs. Grimes.
McConnell lowered the hammer on him right at the outset and the guy didn’t have any money to reply.
I understand the CT business problems happened before he had an interest in the company(ies). That would make a bit of a difference.
I agree with you, though, that it pretty well has killed him. I live along the border in S. Ohio, and haven’t heard a single ad from him.
“I don’t know any Kentuckians, but I have to assume they will be happy with their 2 billion dollar present from McConnell. Everyone is against pork, except when it’s their pork.”
This Kentuckian is pissed as hell.
Cincy resident here, Kentucky is just over the river from us. All I have heard on the radio is McConnell ad after ad slamming Bevin regarding the CT issues. The soundbite of Bevin saying “I have no past or current tax problems” rings across the land with nary a reply from Bevin.
I asked the folks I know who live in KY and they say the same thing, who is Bevin, why dont I hear any reply about these charge. I am not going to vote Dem so that leaves me with McConnell.
Mitch is going to be reelected if he isnt knocked off by the Dem. Mark my words. I posted this same sentiment a few weeks ago and the reply I got from Freepers whas “do you always believe radio ads”
Hey, I have my ear on the ground. Unless Bevin barnstorms the Commonwealth and talks to every single Rotary Club, Church Group, KY Colonels meeting and saturates the airwaves with ads responding to the charge and knocking Mitch down off his high horse he isnt going anywhere.
So come on all you non region ‘pubbies. Tell me I am easily swayed again.
The people vote and not the machine. Kentuckians had better open their eyes and understand that this is it... we save America or she goes to the bottom like the Titanic.
LLS
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