Kentucky Horserace: McConnell’s Rival Pulls Even

[existentialist]

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Oct. 2, 2008 – 1:44 a.m.

Kentucky Horserace: McConnell’s Rival Pulls Even

By Katherine Rizzo, CQ Staff

From Political Perceptions, wsj.com

Sen. Mitch McConnell has either hit a speed bump or hit the wall.
In the middle of September, Sen. McConnell seemed to be sitting pretty.
As the Senate’s Republican leader, Sen. McConnell had succeeded in thwarting majority Democrats on bill after bill – a proficient player of the inside game who made sure the minority wasn’t muscled aside on major legislation.

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Public polls in July and August showed Sen. McConnell with a double-digit lead. In early September, Sen. McConnell’s campaign released polling figures that had him up 52 percent to 35 percent, and a poll for the lefty Web site DailyKos.com showed McConnell with an almost-as-comfortable lead of 50 percent to 37 percent.

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A poll for local television stations showed McConnell had slipped below the 50 percent mark and the gap with Mr. Lunsford was within the margin of error – a statistical dead heat.
Polling conducted a few days later for the Louisville Courier-Journal showed the same tight result, though support for Mr. Lunsford looked soft. More of the survey respondents who favored the Democrat said they might change their minds before voting, and only 43 percent of those who said they preferred Mr. Lunsford called their support “strong.” That compares with 60 percent of Mr. McConnell’s voters who said they were strong for their current senator.

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Sen. McConnell is very, very closely identified with the Bush administration. He has thrown himself into the task of trying to enact Mr. Bush’s policies and, heck, his wife is a Bush cabinet member. (She’s Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao.)

[lakeguy]

1. he'd be doing much worse if the corporate media

would be talking about the obstructionist rebublicans who wouldn't allow 'up or down' votes the two years preceeding the economic collapse of america.

"it's the obstructionist republicans who f'ed things up" should be the cry in the media...but that only happens when democrats decide to fillibuster i guess.