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« Reply #275 on: May 02, 2014, 11:07:21 AM »
McConnell is winning the primary because he is in essence a Tea Party candidate. Look at his voting record. He even supports a federal "right-to-work" law (which nobody except the Tea Party likes).
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« Reply #276 on: May 08, 2014, 12:40:10 PM »
More cockfighting, this time more distant and linked to Grimes.
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« Reply #277 on: May 08, 2014, 01:51:31 PM »

Team McConnell is really grasping at straws, aren't they.
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« Reply #278 on: May 09, 2014, 08:31:14 AM »
Quote from: Bandit3 the Worker on May 02, 2014, 11:07:21 AM
McConnell is winning the primary because he is in essence a Tea Party candidate. Look at his voting record. He even supports a federal "right-to-work" law (which nobody except the Tea Party likes).

Not uncommon. Tea Party challengers (or the everpresent threat of one) over the past few years have moved most Republicans lawmakers notably rightwards in their voting records. IMHO, there are substantially fewer RINOs in the GOP than TPIABNs (Tea Partiers In All But Name).

Admittedly, I don't think that acronym will catch on as it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue like "RINO" does. Tongue
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« Reply #279 on: May 09, 2014, 10:03:35 PM »
McConnell raised $1.07 million in April.
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« Reply #280 on: May 12, 2014, 07:54:28 AM »
Pro-McConnell group dropping $552k of anti-Grimes ads over the next week.
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« Reply #281 on: May 18, 2014, 03:55:32 PM »
Al Cross on the Pub primary.
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« Reply #282 on: May 19, 2014, 07:20:53 AM »
McConnell's looking ahead to November. Money quote: "I'm proud of being the president's number 1 problem."
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« Reply #283 on: May 19, 2014, 02:44:39 PM »
Pro-McConnell PACs will spend $5.2 million on air this summer.
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« Reply #284 on: May 20, 2014, 02:44:53 AM »
Going into today's primary, McConnell still leads by 14 in a new Gravis Marketing poll:



http://gravismarketing.com/polling-and-market-research/final-kentucky-republican-primary-poll-mcconnell-14-over-bevin
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« Reply #285 on: May 20, 2014, 11:22:05 AM »
Very long but fantastic Hamby piece on how McConnell crushed the Tea Party.

Grimes opposes limiting abortion to the first 20 weeks of gestation.
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« Reply #286 on: May 20, 2014, 03:04:48 PM »
McConnell Super-PAC has a new ad out against Grimes, and boy does it look stupid
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« Reply #287 on: May 20, 2014, 03:15:01 PM »
Proud to be the first voter at the precinct, and voted for Bevin in my first ever election.
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« Reply #288 on: May 20, 2014, 06:18:54 PM »

It's no "What rhymes with Alison Lundergan Grimes?", I'll say that.
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« Reply #289 on: May 20, 2014, 06:23:26 PM »
Jesus. That McConnell ad is dumber than a rock. The type of campaign he's running deserves a wallop.
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« Reply #290 on: May 20, 2014, 06:34:04 PM »
There is nothing in this world more hilarious than a McConnell campaign ad
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« Reply #291 on: May 20, 2014, 08:18:51 PM »

I closed the tab after five seconds of that awful video.
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« Reply #292 on: May 20, 2014, 10:38:35 PM »
Apparently Grimes got 100,000 more votes in her primary than McConnell did in his.
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« Reply #293 on: May 21, 2014, 12:51:07 PM »
Grimes has a new TV ad out. I like it a lot.
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« Reply #294 on: May 21, 2014, 12:58:48 PM »
Quote from: CELTICEMPIRE on May 20, 2014, 03:15:01 PM
Proud to be the first voter at the precinct, and voted for Bevin in my first ever election.

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« Reply #295 on: May 21, 2014, 02:34:35 PM »
And McConnell is already on the offense. One of his super PACs has a $560K buy.
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« Reply #296 on: May 21, 2014, 06:24:38 PM »
From the look of things Grimes is putting out better quality political advertising than McConnell.  While that's only one facet of a campaign, it's a pretty important one.
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« Reply #297 on: May 22, 2014, 06:52:14 PM »
From a Fox News host reporting that climate change is real, to someone on centerforpolitics.org admitting that McConnell's race is actually competitive, this has been a week of breaking barriers.
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« Reply #298 on: May 23, 2014, 01:12:43 PM »
Grimes calls on Shinseki to resign over VA scandal. What's notable is that McConnell hasn't done the same yet, meaning Grimes is getting in front of him on the issue.
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« Reply #299 on: May 29, 2014, 12:08:32 PM »
McConnell claims that Kynect, Kentucky's successful healthcare exchange, is "unrelated" to the ACA and would not be affected by an ACA repeal.


Which is a flat out lie, one that the media and Grimes have been hammering him on.
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