POLL: Mitch McConnell Now Trails Alison Lundergan Grimes In Kentucky
Source: National Memo
Kentuckys Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes leads Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) by 2 percent in the race for the states 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 McConnells Washington dysfunction.
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Read more: http://www.nationalmemo.com/poll-mitch-mcconnell-now-trails-alison-lundergan-grimes-in-kentucky/
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)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
(15,262 posts)another_liberal
(8,821 posts)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
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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
(15,242 posts)BluegrassStateBlues
(881 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)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
(18,402 posts)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
(13,468 posts)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
(63,912 posts)And she looks like a real fighter...
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Can you picture the contrast? Imagine her standing at one podium, and old turtle head at the other!
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)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
(63,912 posts)She has a winning personality...
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)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
(10,716 posts)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
(37,726 posts)Are you still in lebkuchen land? GTSY Post. Hope all is well with you and yours.
florida08
(4,106 posts)QuestForSense
(653 posts)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
(58,389 posts)Thanks for the thread, highplainsdem.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)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
(51,630 posts)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
(83,846 posts)A Little Weird
(1,754 posts)I look forward to tossing Mitch out the door and electing Kentucky's first female senator!