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Oh please, oh please, oh please, AMEN!
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/06/26/accurate-pollster-2012-finds-alison-grimes-mitch-mcconnell.html
Kentucky Getting Ready to Ditch Mitch As Democrat Grimes Leads McConnell 48%-46%
By: Sarah Jones
Thursday, June, 26th, 2014, 10:44 am
What looked like it could be an anomaly is beginning to look like a real thing in Kentucky. The Democratic challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Alison Lundergan Grimes, is leading in a new poll from Public Policy Polling (PPP) by 2 points, on the heels of McConnells primary win. Thats right if this is McConnells post-primary bump, hes in trouble.
The poll contains a flood of bad news for McConnell. Eighty-nine percent of respondents are more likely to vote for a candidate who will pass legislation to create jobs. By an 80%-14% margin, voters (including 70% of Republicans) want a candidate that will close tax loopholes on millionaires. Seventy-eight percent of voters want a candidate who will end gridlock and partisanship. Seventy-six percent want a candidate that will make sure that the rich and corporations pay their fair share of taxes, and by a margin of 63%-31% voters oppose cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations.
Mitch McConnell opposes everything that Kentucky voters said they supported in the paragraph above. Whats even worse for McConnell is that voters strongly oppose what he supports. McConnell has been a vocal supporter of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. McConnell has personally blocked a wide range of job creation bills in the Senate, and he has publicly admitted that he is using gridlock as a strategy to destroy the Obama presidency.
Grimes leads by a substantial margin among independents with 56% to McConnells 30%, the PPP analyst noted. Thats a pretty big indictment of the incumbent Senator. But then, when 40% of his own party voted against him in the primary, the one narrative that was clearly intrenched was that Kentucky voters are sick of Mitch McConnell and his belief that creating jobs for Kentuckians isnt his job. That gets old, especially when times are tough and in a state whose main industry has taken a hit.
The PPP analysis of what Kentuckians cared about showed marked support for what Democrats are championing in terms of making millionaires and corporations do their part, (T)hey want to make sure that millionaires pay their fair share and do not get a lower tax rate than the middle class, and they want to close corporate tax loopholes, especially for shipping jobs overseas.
And this is made all the more real and painful because PPP is a liberal-leaning pollster. And we all know that reality has a thing for liberals these days. Yes, thats right. While other pollsters were unskewing themselves to show a horse race between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama in 2012, PPP was found the most accurate after they projected a 2-point Obama victory and put him at the critical 50 percent mark, 50 to 48 percent over Romney.
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Clearly, the turtle, as with criminal Rick Scott, has not been able to improve his image by assaulting his opponent.
It will be close. Grimes has a clear opening here.
get the red out
(13,460 posts)Kentuckians, in the end, generally vote the Republican back in, even if they have to hold their nose to do it.
I have absolutely no faith in most of my state having any sense at all. Really in any part of my state outside of Louisville and Lexington, to be honest.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Then they sure deserve what they get!
barbtries
(28,756 posts)Coventina
(27,052 posts)IMHO.
Aristus
(66,275 posts)I spent a total of five years of my life in Kentucky. I loved it there, and have a lot of good memories of the place. But that was before I became politically aware, and realized what a right-wing place it is. (Rurally speaking, mostly. I found out when I was appearing as Eddie in the floor show of The Rocky Horror Picture Show that Louisville has about the fifth-largest gay community in the country).
I hope the Bluegrass State turns blue for real here soon...
LoisB
(7,170 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)I've waited for this for decades.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)I hope she sends the turtle into obscurity!
groundloop
(11,513 posts)There are several ways to say the same thing, GOPers of course say it a bit differently than the rest of us. We say we want to get rid of tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, GOPers call that a tax increase. We say we don't want to allow insurers to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions, GOPers call that government intrusion into healthcare. And on and on. They're very very good at choosing just the right words to make good policy sound bad.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)Blanks
(4,835 posts)They expanded Medicaid - we all know how much Mitch has opposed Obamacare. Picture yourself being poor, having worked hard and getting health insurance and Mitch is campaigning on taking it away from you.
I think he's toast.
http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/01/08/steve-beshear-dont-fear-the-politics-of-obamacare-dems/
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)abakan
(1,815 posts)They should take this sign to the polls.
NCcoast
(480 posts)Oh man, I like the sound of this.
NCcoast
(480 posts)tea and oranges
(396 posts)I just wish Alison Lundergan Grimes loved coal a little less. Sigh.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)My state, Arkansas, will probably elect a teabagger this time.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)lark
(23,059 posts)you sweet talker! Please, that would be so wonderful, awesome if Grimes ends up beating the turtle.
C Moon
(12,208 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,220 posts)Please let it be.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Smack, smack smack and yum yummy yummy!
Oh please please please! This would be better than Tasty Cake any day (for those who remember the ad's jingle)
PCIntern
(25,467 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I remember the jingle, not the product itself. My mom wouldn't let me touch it,no matter how hard I begged.
sheshe2
(83,633 posts)Yes please do!
riqster
(13,986 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Approvals of 70-80% on issues and yet people vote single issue and/or against their STATED interests.
Cha
(296,771 posts)kentuck
(111,051 posts)I personally know Republicans that are going to vote for her.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)from an Elizabeth Warren appearance for Allison?
K&R - this is really good news.
DemocraticWing
(1,290 posts)WRH2
(87 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)SunSeeker
(51,504 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,018 posts)supercats
(429 posts)It's not over yet. Don't forget the evil Koch bros. will be pouring in tons of money before election day. I'm betting this election will eventually be rigged.
spanone
(135,778 posts)iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)but because of personal reasons (I REALLY don't like her father/family very much.. and had some run ins with her in her younger days that werent very flattering)..
with that being said, cant wait to vote for her and..
im going to be super happy to watch the turtle cry come election night.. because hes definitely going to lose..
thank goodness for primaries tho, so I could get my protest vote in
BluegrassDem
(1,693 posts)Most are shameful and despicable too. This poll seems to suggest she has weathered the negative TV onslaught and maybe it's even backfired a bit on Mitch?
Hekate
(90,527 posts)"Oh please, oh please, oh please, AMEN!" indeed!
NBachers
(17,080 posts)I donated today from California.
https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/entity/34529
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)for substance
rustbeltvoice
(429 posts)marble falls
(56,987 posts)IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)Do it Kentucky! Get out the vote!
B Calm
(28,762 posts)imthevicar
(811 posts)complained Occupy was a fail, and that the change in the national conversation would accomplish nothing: Go Piss up a rope, I was right.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)Larkspur
(12,804 posts)A lot of Dems in the WH will be laughing if Grimes leads holds or expands through Election Day.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)MineralMan
(146,248 posts)Make it so.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)Nothing, and I mean NOTHING would make me happier.
IkeRepublican
(406 posts)Encouraging, but fact of the matter is Kentucky will vote Republican even if McConnell himself gave every one of them paper bags of shit on fire on their front porches.
Grimes needs AT LEAST a 15% lead. Anything less assures a Yurtle win.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)McConnell is getting boatloads of outside money for his campaign. You can help pack his bags by contributing to Alison's campaign.
http://alisonforkentucky.com/
Make it so!
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)relocate Mitch, ASAP!
jmowreader
(50,528 posts)In 1998 Dale Earnhardt was leading the Daytona 500 with seventy or eighty laps to go, and he'd been out in front most of the day. His new crew chief looked at the team and noticed no one was excited.
"When do y'all get excited?"
"If he's still leading after Lap 200 (the end of the race), then we'll get excited," said team owner Richard Childress. "We've been here before."
We could put this a lot of ways - don't count your chickens before they hatch, don't put the cart before the horse...Simply stated, the election's in November, this is still June and most voters have three-minute attention spans.
Alison Lundergan Grimes could very well win this. At the same time, we're still looking at an electorate who thinks Obama is responsible for all Bush's mistakes.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)It would be nice, but we must remember that Mitch is one of the dirtiest, meanest, lying, summabiches who ever got into the senate. He lies, cheats, and says anything to destroy an opponent, especially in a personal race. He may yet come up with a set of lies that would be effective.
Lunabell
(6,044 posts)I am on pins and needles for this race!
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I hope it continues.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)libodem
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Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)ever made. The forty nine other states would love it.(DC too) A turtle is too slow to govern and Mitch proves that every day!