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kentuck

(111,106 posts)
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 11:13 PM Sep 2014

Daily Kos has some advice for Alison Lundergan Grimes...

Perhaps I am in denial, but I simply do not believe these polls.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/08/1328083/-Alison-Lundergan-Grimes-might-as-well-run-on-Kynect-and-Obamacare?detail=facebook

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New York Times polling analyst Nate Cohn says the numbers don't look good for Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes in her campaign to unseat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell:

Every survey over the last month shows Mr. McConnell ahead by more than four points, including two traditional live-interview surveys that contacted voters via a cellphone, one Internet panel survey and a nonpartisan automated poll that contacted voters without a landline by means of an online panel.

On average, Mr. McConnell leads by five points, and Leo, The Upshot’s Senate election forecasting model, now gives him a 93 percent chance of winning re-election.

That's only slightly higher than Daily Kos Poll Explorer, which puts McConnell at 89 percent, and the point is clear: All objective evidence suggests that Mitch McConnell is pulling ahead and that Grimes needs to change things up if she wants to win the election.

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NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
1. Please, someone, remind me to donate to the defeat of Mitch McConnell.
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 11:18 PM
Sep 2014

I'm on a budget but will find the funds to sink that fuck.

TIA from California

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
2. I think she knew it was going to be next to impossible to unseat the Senate Minority Leader
Tue Sep 9, 2014, 12:26 AM
Sep 2014

But it definitely got her name out there for bigger things. And the election is not over yet. 8 weeks is an eternity.

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
4. If we were the only ones voting, yes it would be a slam dunk
Tue Sep 9, 2014, 12:30 AM
Sep 2014

but since it is a red state full of Republicans, it is much harder. I hope Allison somehow beats turtle, but something dramatic needs to happen soon....October surprise perhaps?

left is right

(1,665 posts)
5. She doesn’t refute the folksy claims in his ads
Tue Sep 9, 2014, 05:53 AM
Sep 2014

Just recently he claimed to have saved over 400 jobs and of course their were 3 04 middle-aged white people saying how much he care about Kentucky.
His job claim may, or may not, be true but those 400 jobs can’t possibly make up for his obstructionism and lack of leadership on real job legislation and minimum wage

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