POLL: Mitch McConnell Now Trails Alison Lundergan Grimes In Kentucky

[highplainsdem]

Source: National Memo

Kentucky’s Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes leads Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) by 2 percent in the race for the state’s U.S. Senate seat, according to a new poll from Democratic pollsters Public Policy Polling (PPP).

The poll was completed before the government shutdown ended on Wednesday as a result of a deal negotiated by McConnell. And it was clear that the shutdown was hurting the minority leader, with 48 percent of those polled saying they were less likely to vote for him because of his support of the shutdown.

PPP says the shutdown is a problem for Republican politicians everywhere, noting that the 60 percent of Kentuckians in opposition is typical of what they are finding in all red states.

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Senator McConnell remains the ‘Guardian of Gridlock,’ just as he has for the last 30 years,” Grimes spokeswoman Charly Norton said in a statement released Thursday. ”It is an embarrassment that McConnell waited until the 11th hour to stop the manufactured crisis that he and members of Congress created. It is not heroic for Mitch McConnell to do his job and reopen the government. He may think this is a winning strategy, but Kentuckians now have to pay for Mitch McConnell’s Washington dysfunction.”

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Read more: http://www.nationalmemo.com/poll-mitch-mcconnell-now-trails-alison-lundergan-grimes-in-kentucky/

[Jack Rabbit]

1. The election is a year away, but I hope this trend continues

There isn't a Republican in either house of Congress who deserves re-election, and McConnell is one of those who is least deserving.

[Coyotl]

8. She is a vialble candidate whose support will just build.

[another_liberal]

9. Don't worry too much, Jack.

The Republicans are more likely to continue, for any number of reasons, acting just like themselves than they are to learn anything and start to clean up their act.

[Jack Rabbit]

18. I agree, Republicans will continue to act as they have

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Some congressional Republicans know better than to do this again, but their paymasters, the Koch brothers, still don't. Jim DeMint from Heritage Action and the lobbyists from FreedomWorks, who pressured congressional Republicans to keep the shutdown going and then default on the government's debt, are nothing more than paid agents of the Koch brothers. The Heritage Foundation and FreedomWorks can no more be separated from the Koch brothers than can Koch Industries itself.

Forget the individual politicians. They are merely tools of two Birch Society born-and-bred fascists. The Koch brothers must be destroyed. We, the People, have the responsibility to put an end to their ability to buy politicians or direct them to pass onerous legislation such as racist voter ID laws or "stand-your-ground" laws or laws making it more difficult to regulate pollution (which, by the way, they at least partially deny exists by funding campaign to debunk global warming).

[gordianot]

2. I look forward to McConnell's departure can you imagine what would replace him as minority leader?

[BluegrassStateBlues]

11. Probably Coburn. nt

[bemildred]

3. You want to know why there will be no "crisis" in January? That's why. nt

[Dawgs]

7. Yep. n/t

[Dopers_Greed]

4. He's more vulnerable in his primary too

There's a bagger gunning for him and he eventually relented on the shutdown. Poor turtle is going to have two tough elections to stay in the Senate.

[frazzled]

16. That is why Reid, Schumer, Durbin, and Murray all praised him last night

In the presser after the Senate vote last night, the four members of the Democratic leadership made sure to praise Mitch McConnell, repeatedly, for his role.

I began to laugh after a while, realizing that their smiling praise was going to kill him next spring with a primary challenge from the right.

Honestly, there's no winning for him: if he obstructs, he's unpopular with the mainstream in a general; if he does the right thing, he's unpopular with the right flank, who can primary him out of there before he even gets to a general.

[get the red out]

5. I can only hope

But I've been let down so many times by hopeful polls against these Republican numb-skulls in Kentucky that I'm not getting my hopes up except to say it's better than if she were trailing.

And McConnell will have to spend money in the primary too, thanks to the 'baggers.

[CTyankee]

6. Grimes looks pretty damn good, tho!

And she looks like a real fighter...

[another_liberal]

10. I can't wait to see them debate.

Can you picture the contrast? Imagine her standing at one podium, and old turtle head at the other!

[Hubert Flottz]

14. I hope Kentucky can trade a snapping turtle for

a swan.

Meanwhile, next door to the Bluegrass state, Shellie Moore Capito is looking for a seat in the US Senate. Shellie is the beast in that race, against another swan, former Mountaineer mascot and present WV secretary of state, Natalie Tennant. A very bright and beautiful lady, who I think would be a great US senator and a fine representative of the people here in this broken state. We hate to lose a great secretary of state, but I think this lady is someone who can help our state nationally, unlike Shellie Moore Capito, who has been nothing but a rubber stamp neocon enabler, since she first became a member of the US House of Representatives. Shellie's dad Arch A. More, went to federal prison for three years, right after his last term as Governor of our state, for his campaign shenanigans/theft.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/17/natalie-tennant-campaign_n_3941695.html

[CTyankee]

21. I really liked the way Grimes came across in her campaign video...

She has a winning personality...

[Hubert Flottz]

23. She would be a tremendous improvement for the State of Kentucky.

That cold blooded, reptilian, chinless Mitch, is about as repulsive to most of the country as anyone I can think of, but I think Canadian Teddy "Cruddy" Cruz might soon top Mitch, in the most repulsive republican super leach category. Cruz will even top Tom Delay and Darth Cheney very soon as most despised GOPer.

[lebkuchen]

12. I think this was realized prior

The Dems placed heavy emphasis on the role women on both sides of the aisle played in the negotiations. We should be seeing more women in Congress as a result, and my money is the dem women.

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Hi lady!

Are you still in lebkuchen land? GTSY Post. Hope all is well with you and yours.

[florida08]

13. lol

"tear 'em up"

[QuestForSense]

17. The handwriting on the wall:

Yesterday --

CNN interrupts Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's speech announcing the deal to end the government shutdown and avoid default ... in order to get reaction from the true GOP leader, House Speaker Ted "Calgary" Cruz.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/16/1247897/-CNN-cuts-away-from-McConnell-speech-to-cover-Speaker-Cruz-s-reaction

[Uncle Joe]

19. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, highplainsdem.

[tomm2thumbs]

20. I'm sure that $3 Billion Dollar parachute he sewed together will offer his butt a soft landing

No doubt lots of political friends and contractors who benefitted from years of grafting will make his transition into retirement a handsomely rewarding experience. Too bad there are so many things in life you actually need a SOUL to enjoy, so I pity whatever waits for him in the non-political world.

[SunSeeker]

24. That is not helping McConnell.

Conservatives are pissed about what they are calling the "Kentucky Kickback." But it just goes to show how sick conservatives are. That was not pork, but important infrastructure spending that will put people to work.

It was for a crucial Ohio River construction project, just the sort of thing we need right now. The provision authorizes $2.8 billion in funding for the Olmsted Locks and Dam on the Ohio River between Kentucky and Illinois.The entire commercial navigation system of the Ohio River faces a choke point near Olmsted, where two locks and dams with century-old technology are barely cobbled together and at risk of failure.

Repairing crumbling infrastructure is very stimulative to the economy and is exactly what we should be doing. The blow back against McConnell by conservatives is just a happy byproduct.

[sheshe2]

22. Good news~

[A Little Weird]

25. This made my day - thanks!

I look forward to tossing Mitch out the door and electing Kentucky's first female senator!