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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Yes. You like pro-Abortion Molech worshipper better.
Gosh. That mean McConnell said he wants to punch us in the face.
So let’s put in Barabara Boxer of Kentucky.
That will sure show McConnell.
Tell me how your support of the gope has worked out for you the last 30 yes? If you are one of them and from your posts you are, you have no no doubt got pretty fat at the taxpayer feeding trough$$$$.
And don’t give me the pro life rant you it’s all about the party boys hate pro lifers and evagelicals with a passion. You made your bed sleep in it.
“My guess is there are a lot of Alison Lundergan Grimes supporters here.
If so, you are a traitor and turncoat to your principles and nation.”
Let me correct this B.S.
My guess is there are a lot of McConell supporters here. If so, you are a traitor and turncoat to your principles and nation.
“Dislike McConnell as much as anyone, but if the damn dems hold the Senate majority, there’ll be unhappy times ahead.”
Bush II had a Republican Senate, and now we have Mr. Roberts, No difference between Mitch and Alison
If you like your Senator, you can keep your Senator.
To paraphrase someone
“There are people who support Grimes.
Not voting for McConnell in the general helps put Grimes in.”
Dude, you need to be on a site visited by the Vonted Independents, this site is not for you
Do you work for Mitch McConnell? Nothing else explains your bizarre infatuation with the idea that he needs to be re-elected after stabbing us in the back.
Famous last words..........
Oh I know there are some here that just chomp at the chance to keep having the dem majority to pissnmoan about.
As bad as McConnell is, he’s still not as bad as it can get with dems keeping the reins.
Purity is a great goal, never been and never will be much purity in politics, but what does it take to get the blinders off some to see that only a couple more dem majorities will sink the Good Ship America while “teaching those Pubbies who’s boss”?
That makes too much sense for some here that can not see past the end of their nose, which they seem happy about chopping off.
The time to have booted Mitch was in a the Primary. Where were all these “lesson teachers” then?
Otherwise we are being asked to join their circular firing squad.
“Famous last words..........”
“Dislike McConnell as much as anyone, but if the damn dems hold the Senate majority, there’ll be unhappy times ahead.”
Bush II had a Republican Senate, and now we have Mr. Roberts, No difference between Mitch and Alison
Who has the famous last words in you opinion, You or I. Are you happy with Mr. Roberts and his Obamacare Tax ruling ?
Guess those awful conservatives are MIA for Mitch, huh. He’s getting what he asked for, no Tea Party, no conservatives, no votes.
Maybe I can make it simple enough, politics is chess and you are wanting to play checkers.
I am hopeful what Roberts did was to give us a pathway to bury nobamacare by ruling that it was a tax instead of a Fee. Why? Because of the Constitution stating that Bills of revenue (tax) must ORIGINATE in the House and ACA was in fact ORIGINATED in the Senate by an unconstitutional ploy by reid. Secondly, the dems were in such a rush they forgot to include a clause in the Bill called SEVERIBILITY, meaning if any part of the Bill is rendered constitutionally invalid the whole Bill must be re-considered by Congress, meaning corrected and re-passed.
Now let’s consider which Senate majority would be most likely to repass nobamacare, the dems or a GOP majority?
Checkers or chess. Checkers or chess. Get it yet?
Ping for later.
If someone is in KY, not voting for McConnell is actively helping Grimes win.
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You make it sound like that’s a “bad” thing.
Midge vowed to crush the Tea Party conservatives. Looks like there’s a possibility of backfire.
Thank you for going on record saying you think that it is a good thing for a leftist liberal pro-Abortion Democrat to take one of two KY senate seats.
Do you think that McConnell's primary might have gone differently if it occurred AFTER McDaniel's primary in Mississippi?
Do you think that, maybe, McConnell was lying low with his true intentions until after he was safely past his primary to show his true colors?
Do you think that McDaniel might have won in Mississippi if McConnell were still afraid of losing his primary and restrained himself, or do you think that McConnell would still have funded the slime attacks in Mississippi and taken his chances with his own primary later?
-PJ
I would think a lot of the ways to cheat in Primaries and runoffs was put in place while Mississippi was still strong yellerdog dem.
McDaniel did not just fall off the turnip truck in Mississippi, he should have been prepared for vote cheat and been prepared with better ways to document the double voters, not acting like its something he’s never seen before.
As far as I have heard the Mississippi and Kentucky Primaries have no linkage, overt or covert.
McConnell won his Primary for the same reason Cornyn did, his opponent was barely existent.
One thing both Primaries showed was that the Tea Party “orgs” have not the same impact as Tea Party the “movement” did in 2010. To shuck a powerful and entrenched RINO like McConnell, Cornyn or Thad, requires a great deal more than just a bunch of knashing of teeth online.
I don't think that McDaniel expected the friendly fire during the run-off, especially since he's a sitting state Senator who won two elections previously. He's probably just as shocked at how ruthlessly his own party turned on him.
One test will be the upcoming Lamar Alexander primary. If Alexander faces a very tough challenger because the electorate is angry at what happened in Mississippi, then it's a clue that maybe Bevin might have had a better go if it, too, if Mississippi came first.
It could also be that the Tea Party "orgs" were crippled in 2012 by Obama's IRS. Cochran, McConnell, and Alexander are benefiting from it, too.
-PJ
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