Debunking The Media Lie: Democrats Confirm They Are Not Pulling Out Of Kentucky Senate Race

[babylonsister]

Mea culpa for posting a story I read about the dscc pulling out. Keep the faith!


Debunking The Media Lie: Democrats Confirm They Are Not Pulling Out Of Kentucky Senate Race
By: Sarah Jones
Wednesday, October, 15th, 2014, 2:58 pm


Sorry, media and Republicans, but no. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) talking point is not what’s going on.

Unlike the national Republican Party pulling out of Michigan because their candidate is such a fail, the national Democratic Party is not abandoning Alison Lundergan Grimes (D-KY) just because they are moving a lot of ad money to other races. They are investing in the unprecedented ground game in Kentucky. Investing is the opposite of pulling out.

Kentucky Democrats confirmed that the DSCC had not reserved ad time past what they had already paid for, so there was no advertising to “pull”. This entire narrative only works if Grimes were a bad candidate, but she is an excellent candidate in a race marked as a toss up. Furthermore, Guy Cecil, the Executive Director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee tweeted that he just signed a $300,000 wire to help get out the vote for Alison in Kentucky:

Allow me to translate for you, since the media seems incapable of understanding GROUND GAME, even after their epic humiliation in 2012. A get out the vote operation is more important than Koch dollars, ultimately, because Koch dollars can buy you TV ads that sell lies, but they still can’t vote.

A Grimes campaign official confirmed their superior grassroots organization with me in an email — check out these numbers and you’ll understand why Mitch McConnell was desperate to sell his “Democrats pull out of Kentucky” talking point to a willing media:

Nearly 4,000 volunteers across KY
Reached out to nearly 400,000 voters thus far
Over 3,000 meetings held with individual supporters (1:1s)
Over 30 offices or staging locations for GOTV across the state

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The Democrats are spending money on the ground game. They watched Obama do it in successfully in 2012 against all expectations, so they decided to apply it in a midterm election. Alison Lundergan Grimes had a solid debate against Mitch McConnell, in which the Obamacare issue he had planned to pummel her with actually worked against him.

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http://www.politicususa.com/2014/10/15/no-dscc-pull-kentucky-senate-race-abandon-alison-lundergan-grimes.html

[Rex]

1. No worries, the M$M is in full Help the GOP Mode. Just like every election cycle.

It didn't sound like Dems were pulling out of Kentucky, from other threads I've read. I expect their help (M$M) to ramp up as we get closer to election time.

[cally]

2. kick

[upaloopa]

3. The hype of who she voted for and the Dems pulling

money sounded like a one two media punch in favor of the turtle to me.
I don't see a strong women like Grimes throwing in the towel. Perhaps that should be the media story.