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Showing Original Post only (View all)Democrats ditch Kentucky, leaving Grimes on her own vs. McConnell (WTF???)` [View all]
Shades of both the last NJ governors race, and the race in 2010 for Ted Kennedy's seat (which put Scott Brown in the Senate). WTF is the DSCC's problem? Fucking insanity, or incompetence, or both!
[font size=5]Democrats ditch Kentucky, leaving
Grimes on her own vs. McConnell[/font]
In a sign national Democrats no longer believe Alison Lundergran Grimes can defeat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is going off the air.
The DSCC has now spent more than $2 million in Kentucky and continues to make targeted investments in the ground game while monitoring the race for future investments, but is currently not on the air in the state, CQ Roll Call quoted a DSCC official as saying.
Grimes has kept the race competitive by selling herself to voters as an energetic independent, but she has trailed in most public surveys against McConnell, who leads by an average of 3 points, according to RealClearPolitics.
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A Democratic strategist in Kentucky who has worked on the race told msnbc the DSCCs decision was shocking, pointing to a recent internal poll showing Grimes leading the race by 2 points, in line with a public poll this month by SurveyUSA. The internal survey was conducted by Mark Mellman, a Democratic pollster best known for accurately forecasting Harry Reids comfortable win over Sharron Angle in 2010 despite polls showing her with a lead in the final stretch.
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Grimes on her own vs. McConnell[/font]
In a sign national Democrats no longer believe Alison Lundergran Grimes can defeat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is going off the air.
The DSCC has now spent more than $2 million in Kentucky and continues to make targeted investments in the ground game while monitoring the race for future investments, but is currently not on the air in the state, CQ Roll Call quoted a DSCC official as saying.
Grimes has kept the race competitive by selling herself to voters as an energetic independent, but she has trailed in most public surveys against McConnell, who leads by an average of 3 points, according to RealClearPolitics.
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A Democratic strategist in Kentucky who has worked on the race told msnbc the DSCCs decision was shocking, pointing to a recent internal poll showing Grimes leading the race by 2 points, in line with a public poll this month by SurveyUSA. The internal survey was conducted by Mark Mellman, a Democratic pollster best known for accurately forecasting Harry Reids comfortable win over Sharron Angle in 2010 despite polls showing her with a lead in the final stretch.
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Democrats ditch Kentucky, leaving Grimes on her own vs. McConnell (WTF???)` [View all]
markpkessinger
Oct 2014
OP
I didn't have to....like you....she turns her back on Barack Obama....and the success known as
VanillaRhapsody
Oct 2014
#59
I DO think so.....she didn't claim the success known as Kentucky Connect...that dumbass Mitch
VanillaRhapsody
Oct 2014
#60
Who did I vote for? I voted for Barack Obama just like every good Democrat did.
VanillaRhapsody
Oct 2014
#97
Except that she is already on the record saying that she voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2008
kelly1mm
Oct 2014
#34
What about sitting out the election or voting for McCain & Romney supports Democratic pricipals?
bunnies
Oct 2014
#85
and WHO decides that YOU or the majority of the party members?....so yeah get a grip!
VanillaRhapsody
Oct 2014
#94
"if she actually said she did vote for Obama, that video clip would show up in every single McConnel
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2014
#20
Sure one has the right to ask! Saying otherwise in nonsence. Plus, if she was so concerned about
kelly1mm
Oct 2014
#35
I was just told in this very thread that even if she didn't vote for President Obama she was a
VanillaRhapsody
Oct 2014
#81
I know....and they ALL proclaim themselves to the the "Real Democrats"!
VanillaRhapsody
Oct 2014
#91
I will never, EVER forgive Chuck Todd for the hatchet job he did on the Grimes campaign.
Paladin
Oct 2014
#24
+1000000 To pretend that politics today is about one party versus another
woo me with science
Oct 2014
#86
Alison's coffers notwithstanding, it is still a poor decision on the part of the DSCC.
Tatiana
Oct 2014
#56
If she had really done that I think saying so would have been better than the non-answer given.
Puzzledtraveller
Oct 2014
#64
DSCC Still Polling Kentucky Race... “There’s been a lot of misinformation, and .....
riversedge
Oct 2014
#77