Ashley Judd Trails Mitch McConnell By 4 Points In Senator's Internal Poll

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: The Huffington Post



An internal poll from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign shows him leading actress Ashley Judd by 4 points in a potential matchup for the Republican's Kentucky Senate seat.

The poll, by Republican firm Voter/Consumer Research, demonstrates that McConnell's camp is taking the possible challenge seriously. While the details were not publicly released, a memo of the results was provided to outlets including Politico and The Washington Post.

Its release comes weeks after McConnell's campaign mocked a survey by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling that found the same 4-point margin.

McConnell's campaign manager, Jesse Benton, had panned PPP's results, saying, "It speaks volumes that even a liberal Democrat pollster with an agenda to make Mitch McConnell look bad still can't find an opponent who can lead him in Kentucky."


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McTurtle's own numbers match PPP's from earlier this month.
She hasn't even announced and Ms. Judd already has the race down to low single digits in two polls.

[elleng]

1. Looks good to me!!!

[sheshe2]

32. Hi Elleng...

Mitch goes..Ashley grows! Forward!

[elleng]

33. SURE hope so!!!

And she won't have to rely on DNC for funds, I expect.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

47. I hope not

[JEB]

2. Ditch Mitch!

Retire the turtle.

[ReRe]

12. I do like your...

..."Ditch Mitch!" That sounds like a real good campaign slogan to me!

[catbyte]

3. Hmmm, a smart, sexy, intelligent woman vs. Yertle the Turtle's evil older brother...

Are they sure he's 4 points ahead?

[xtraxritical]

28. What does Nate Silver say?

[elfin]

4. This is insanely GREAT! Eom

[dlwickham]

5. she doesn't have a shot

While the PPP poll gave McConnell an abysmal 37 percent approval rating, the Voter/Consumer Research survey showed him with a much healthier 51 percent approval rating. It also suggests that some of Judd's positions could make her highly vulnerable. McConnell's lead jumped to 20 points after voters were read some of her positions, according to Politico

[DollarBillHines]

6. Unfortunately, I have to agree.

Kentucky is red as hell.

[Blasphemer]

38. Maybe if she tried a House race first...

Especially if she managed to win a tough district, she'd have the credibility to try for a Senate run in a few years. However, right now, I think she'd be shredded to pieces given what we know of her politics.

[NewJeffCT]

8. Not many Democrats have a shot in Kentucky

so, why not take a page out of the Republican playbook and get a celebrity to run.

[dlwickham]

17. there's a Democratic governor in Kentucky

so a Democrat can win but as much as I LOVE Ashley Judd, she can't without changing a lot of her positions on things like MTR which I hope she never does

[cosmicone]

23. what is MTR? n/t

[caraher]

24. mountaintop removal

She's been a strong activist against that practice

[xtraxritical]

29. Why can't posters type a few letters? Do we have to be mind readers? Grade school english please.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

41. it's a commonly-used abbreviation

no need to get snippy about it

[xtraxritical]

42. No need to be lazy and snippy.

[Kolesar]

43. He's Xtra Critical...eom

[xtraxritical]

46. It's simple English - if you want people to know what you mean. Oh you're too cool and PC?

[Brother Buzz]

7. Imagine the shift in the polls when she actually tosses her hat in the ring

That seat is gonna flip. Bank on it.

[ReRe]

11. You Betcha!

[Gman]

9. When the McConnell campaign did "push polling" on her based on how McConnell framed the issues

she's behind 20 points or more, according to an article yesterday.

[xtraxritical]

30. Those are McConnell's stats.

[Gman]

35. Exactly, meaning they will run attack ads to drive down her positives

and they know now how to do it. Any way you slice it, it'll be a hard uphill battle for Judd.

[ReRe]

10. Go Ashley!

When was the last time you ever heard Mitch McConnell mention the state of KY?? It's time for Mitch to go. Ashley loves her home state of Kentucky. And her home state loves her. I hope like Hell she runs. If she's only 4 points behind him in the polls and she hasn't even given any indication that she will run yet, I say that's pretty good odds. And KY knows "odds." We have got to turn these red states to periwinkle!
Go Ashley!

[SCVDem]

13. Romney leads Obama by 5 points!

I will only believe Nate.

Mitch must go!

[dhol82]

14. hey

she hasn't even begun to run. wonder what the numbers will be if she actually starts a campaign. and, gets her hollywood and nashville friends to stump for her?

they seem to really be scared. nice.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

19. word is McConnell is consulting with Master Splinter

and trying to come up with a good smear strategy for this challenge:

[merrily]

20. Oddly, he is more appealing in that photo than he is in real life.

[TDale313]

26. + 1

[wordpix]

22. haha, thanks for the laugh

you could change the banner to "Old Age Mutant Rethug"

[UnrepentantLiberal]

15. Senator Judd!

[xtraxritical]

31. Ashley in Kentucky and Ben Afleck in Massachusetts!

[UnrepentantLiberal]

34. Cool.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

36. Is there any word of an Afleck run or is that just speculation?

[Blasphemer]

39. Speculation at this point. He won't confirm or deny interest... nt

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

40. Would he need to team up with Matt Damon in order to have a debate?

They could have a dialog while ignoring Scott Brown...or whomever is the GOPig candidate, insult the hell out of the Republicans and entertain the audience.

Kevin Smith could be the campaign director.

It would be better than listening to Scott Brown wank about what a fu@king patriot he is.

[frylock]

16. i didn't think it would be possible for me to have an even bigger crush for her..

but here we are. she rocks!

[blackspade]

18. That is not a good sign for turtleman.

Ashley only running 4 pt behind in an internal poll?

ouch.

[Bozita]

21. Mitch is Bill Slowsky's cousin

[NBachers]

25. She sure does the thing, doesn't she?

[TDale313]

27. Would love to see her run.

Either this time or against Rand Paul. She'd be great.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

37. It would be great to see less republicans and more Judd.

[Mr Peabody]

44. All of her nude films may prove to be a negative or at least a distraction for many Kentuckians ...

was tempted to post photos but did not...

[tabasco]

45. Pukes might get the vapors!

If they see some titties!