How IN THE WORLD did this guy win?

The Supreme Court needs to just legalize it.

If this is the wrong place, I'm sorry, but Rhode Island is the only state in New England that doesn't have SSM, and NY has it too. Not only that but a SOUTHERN STATE has it and RH doesn't.

What's Rhode Island's deal?

Because there's too many social conservatives in the legislature who hate gays.

Also, San Francisco should be disqualified from this list for its war against the homeless and for fingerprinting welfare recipients.

This is why I wish Minneapolis was an independent city or a San Francisco/Philadelphia-style city/county, we get stuck with some awful conservative areas in Hennepin County. At least make it just Minneapolis plus the surrounding areas, say Brooklyn Center, Robbinsdale, New Hope, Crystal, Golden Valley, St. Louis Park, Hopkins, St. Anthony and Richfield is Hennepin County, the rest of it can become the new county of Minnetonka. Eh I guess for this to work we'd have to take Edina and Bloomington too.

FWIW my Hennepin County (including Edina and Bloomington), voted 71.2% for Obama in 2008. Minnetonka County voted only 50.8% for Obama.

It sounds like Hennepin County has Campbell County Syndrome.

The problem I see here is that a lot of Republicans will vote for McConnell anyway even if they disapprove of him and that may be more than enough for him to win.

What's just as bad is that they'll get violent about it.

Some people, mostly those who excelled at school, can get employed at the drop of a hat, and have never gotten fired before, don't see the need for social safety nets.  Surprisingly, there are a lot of these people.

I don't know too many people like that. The ones that are tend to be the same ones who are socially conservative religious fanatics.

Why is it that Americans today are rejecting social conservatism much more readily and much quicker than economic conservatism?

It seems like economic conservatism would collapse much quicker, because there's a lot more poor people than rich people.

Don't get me wrong: I think both social and economic conservatism should collapse. But I find it strange that the economic right-wingers aren't falling apart first.

Horrible idea. Look at the trouble the EU has caused.

He's running on "making it easier to force people to receive mental-health treatment" and attacking video games? The GOP should love this guy.

As an example look at the congressional map battle in IL in the 90's. The R's sued for lack of a map that passed the legislature and provided a map that they drew. The D's offered an alternative map that was not as good at creating a Latino majority district, nor as equal in population, nor any better at preserving any communities of interest. The judge decided against appointing a special master and selected the R map for the state.

Then that judge must have been some Republican hack.

The fact that the legislature didn't do its job doesn't give the Tea Party the "right" to draw the new map. If the legislature keeps sitting on its hands, a nonpartisan panel - not the Tea Party - should draw the map.

I agree that districts should be as equally sized as possible. If the map fails to do that, then it should be thrown out, regardless of what party benefits from that.

The problem here is that the Tea Party wants to draw the map themselves.

I swear I am not making this up...

http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20130426/NEWS010802/304260159/N-Ky-residents-sue-redistricting

The percentage of Democrats in this poll may have thrown the poll off. I don't think that that proportion of Kentuckians consider themselves Democrats, much less voting Kentuckians.

The poll actually undercounted Democrats. Registered Democrats actually have a 1.5-to-1 edge over Republicans in Kentucky.

Another interesting note: As the percentage of registered Republicans in Campbell County has risen, the county has gotten more Democratic at the presidential level (unlike rural counties).

This broad brush take no prisoners ranting against Pubs is a bit tiresome.

The broad brush take no prisoners ranting BY the Repubs is EVEN MORE tiresome.

Fascinating that 72% of Kentuckians consider themselves Southerners.

I don't.

I bet the results for this poll would have been pretty bad if it was polled during the fascist era of the early 2000s.

You can also see on this graph how Occupy fixed things.

It really is stunning that there ever were more people against it than for it.

Real America means any place that Romney lost.

The GOP areas are essentially dying, with the exception of Boone County. The growth is in Louisville, Lexington, and Bowling Green.

her populist message on jobs and the economy will resonate wonderfully with Bluegrass voters.

I don't know about Hillary, but Bill Clinton hardly governed as a populist.

I used to like the Clintons too, before the school uniform garbage started up.

He's even more vulnerable now, now that he's been caught illegally using Senate resources to conduct oppo research. Oops.

Do you currently live in KY? If so how is this whole recording about them discussing Judd playing, if people are even hearing about it?

It's playing very, very, very, very, very badly for McConnell - despite the efforts of the major media outlets to spin it in McConnell's favor.

I support marriage equality. I'm 39.

Weird, because everybody I know in Kentucky who is under the age of 45 supports marriage equality now.