Kentucky Senate Poll Shows Alison Lundergan Grimes A Serious Threat To Unpopular Mitch McConnell

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Source: Huffington Post



New poll numbers released on Thursday hold troubling signs for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

According to the survey -- conducted by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling on behalf of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy For America -- Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kentucky's Democratic secretary of state who officially entered the race on Tuesday, leads the longtime senator by one point, with 45 percent to McConnell's 44 percent. While her lead is within the margin of error, the poll also underscored some broader issues that McConnell is likely to face as he campaigns for a sixth term.

At 51 percent, a majority of Kentuckians say they disapprove of McConnell's job performance, while 40 percent approve and 9 percent are undecided. Those numbers are an improvement over an April PPP poll that showed him to be one of the least popular senators in the country, with a 36 percent job approval rating. His lagging numbers reinforce a longstanding problem that McConnell has had wrangling support for his reelection bid.

PPP surveyed 1,210 Kentucky voters for the first two questions, with a margin of error of 2.8 percent. PCCC reportedly plans to release additional findings from the survey at a press conference later on Thursday.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/01/kentucky-senate-poll-alison-lundergan-grimes-mitch-mcconnell-_n_3688273.html

[SoapBox]

1. Let the TeaPuker dirty tricks begin.

[MotherPetrie]

2. Exactly. Not expecting any upset to the status quo.

[Botany]

3. I loves me some A. L. D.

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McConnell is in for a real fight.

[librechik]

4. you mean the crooks in charge of Kentucky elections won't break the law to win?

or do whatever else is necessary to foul the process so no fair election is possible? Really?

Gosh, I sure hope you are right.

However, I just don't see it happening, even if we brought in 4 times as many votes as them, not just twice as many (that's how we lost in 2010) They have the levers of government in a vice like grip. We will have to pry them out of their cold dead hands.

[tabasco]

5. Just returned from two months in Kentucky

That place needs the help.

[alfredo]

8. Luckily there are pockets of progressive thought.

Lexington is a university town and oasis for the free thinker. Our current mayor is openly gay and progressive.


Recent Democratic mayors:


Mayor Jim Grey



Jim Newberry



Teresa Isaacs. Single mother of Lebanese descent, former mayor.



Pam Miller



Scotty Baesler

[tabasco]

12. Good luck turning those pockets into blankets across the whole state!

I met some wonderful people and made some great friends in Kentucky!

[alfredo]

14. We need less theocratic and more theocentric Christians. The theocrats are the ones

who are working against human rights, and for corporate rights.

[madville]

6. His only saving grace is

That it's a midterm. Turn out will decide this one, if it was '12 or '16 he might be in trouble.

[AlbertCat]

7. Alas.... this doesn't sound that promising.

I mean... remember, Repugs will disapprove of their Repug Senator or Congresscritter... and still vote for them!

[wordpix]

9. We really need Grimes to beat Turtle McDoublechin

I for one will send her some $

[John2]

10. That Poll is

still troubling for an incumbent senator from a supposedly red state and the minority leader of the Senate. It reveals a significant number of Kentuckians disapprove of him.

[blackspade]

11. nothing would make me happier than turtle man going down.

[Ruby the Liberal]

13. Be interesting to see the poll numbers after Fancy Farm

I read that the tea party primary challenger was pissed because Turtle brought in people by the busloads but scheduled the busses to leave before the primary guy got to speak.