Discussion for article #229098
Disqualified my ass. This race is dead even.
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So I guess that the Rasmussen and Gallup polls were bullshit after all and that all the folks who were claiming that the race was over because Grimes wasn’t a “true” Democrat or had run a terrible campaign were just talking out their asses.
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Thank you! I’ve been so annoyed with people who say “I’ve given up hope on this race.” Are you kidding me? The first time McConnell has been on the ropes in 30 years and you’re giving up because she’s down 2 percent??? It’s absurd. She’s got a chance, and it’s the Nate Silvers and his followers of the world who write people off too quickly. Human behavior can’t be whittled down to a number. There are a lot of other factors, and enthusiasm is a big one. Stop raining on her chances haters.
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Well well well. The voters have has 2 weeks to digest Chuck Todd’s idiotic remarks and she’s still around. You know Mitch is desperate if he needs to give Todd a starring role in his attack commercials. Now that he’s thrown the kitchen sink, What’s next?
Benghazi!!!
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Bah, if Grimes had just admitted she voted for a politician that 60% of the voting population of Kentucky voted against she would be ahead by eleventy-hundred plus percent! Obviously she is a failure of a disqualified candidate who no-one should vote for! /s
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Shoot, I’m told if she’d admitted to voting for the scary black president who is scary, Mitch McConnell would’ve just gone ahead and conceded. Yep, and Porky Pig and Sandman Sims would’ve come out and run him off the debate stage.
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Has Karl “Bush’s Brain” Rove weighed in? He usually has good insights. Otherwise it’s just Yertle by a warmly wrapped neck.
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Not to mention the ones that pinky swore of the DCCC for what was perceived as them pulling ads from KY (despite taking them money to help GOTV efforts).
Some Dems/progressives are too quick to buy media narrative and take their balls and go home. They always talk about how Dems should fight yet are to first to pull out the fainting couch and fold when the going gets tough. It’s quite exasperating to watch as it happens time and time again
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Grimes still has a good chance to beat McConnell.
But it will come down to the GOTV efforts, which usually is better done by Democrats.
This one is still a toss-up.
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This comes down to turnout, turnout, turnout and the the 100 or so miles that make up the 1-64 corridor from Louisville to Lexington. Nothing else really matters at this point. These pollsters are mostly using the 2010 midterms to build their likely voter models but if there is a Democratic uptick of just 5% or so, she will win.
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I couldn’t agree more.
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She has spent a lot of time on coal. Can she eat into his margins in the east?
This is why I find Grimes so refreshing.
Remember in 2012 when Virginia was a Lost Cause, as all the hillbilly counties in the south and west totaled up and Romney was coasting.
It was our friend Chick Toad who reminded us of Fairfax County and similar areas which tended Democratic.
Well, Fairfax came through and Romney was Toast. My knowledge of Kentucky’s counties and Democratics enclaves is minimal, but I see the potential for activism, interest and, above all, turnout.
At this point, I’ll take just about any messaging system to get Democratic voters to the polls. This is a signal moment in Kentucky history. This Turtle man is just plain EVIL. His opinion of those who would vote FOR him matches (or perhaps exceeds) the scorn he feels for Democrats, poor people and anyone not a rich Confederate. You know, the kind who tee off at the Masters, the kind with whom he rubs shoulders as they pass the checks and moneybags to his greedy fingers.
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If they had 600 RV’'s, the margin of error for the LV’s is, to use the technical term, so reefuckingdiculously high that they shouldn’t have even done it.
I think so. The last Bluegrass Poll showed her gaining ground, though still far behind, in Eastern KY. If she can slow the bleeding out in the counties and run up the margins throughout I-64, she can win this thing.
And some “liberal” DLC Dems are too quick to sell out to Wall Street and the banks and still claim they’re fighting for the common man.
Maybe he’ll croak while he’s Senate Majority Leader, and Harry Reid can do “Weekend At Mitch’s”…
“The Senator from Kentucky wishes to unblock all Presidential nominees! Don’t you, Mitch?”…
[McConnell nods vigorously, due to Harry Reid’s hidden hand]
They’re still preferable to Republicans, and I will do what I can to support ANY Democrat over ANY Republican. There may be third parties, but there are no third parties.
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