KY-SUSA: McConnell +5

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Obama's regulations are killing the KY/WV coal region.

Obama's regulations are actually helping the KY/WV coal region.

It's McConnell who opposes the minimum wage and supports union-busting.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Obama's regulations are killing the KY/WV coal region.

Obama's regulations are actually helping the KY/WV coal region.

It's McConnell who opposes the minimum wage and supports union-busting.

Helping the region how? If I were a miner, I wouldn't care two bits about clean air as I would my ability to feed my family.

Come on, dude. Obama's policies have worked so well and are so popular that Grimes has to support the coal industry by distancing herself from Obama? Put out commercials how she'd defend Kentucky against Obama's regulations? Dance around whether she even voted for Obama. Seriously?

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the people of the region are not fans of coal plants getting shut down. You wouldn't be either if you were in the industry. It's interest group politics 101.

Obama hasn't shut down any coal plants.

Incidentally, the United Mine Workers has endorsed Grimes.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

That's the view if, a majority agree with a premise, it's correct, even if it's not objectively the case.

How is it objectively the case?

IIRC correctly, at least anecdotally, there was a nasty ice storm in the region shortly after Obama took office and the FEMA response was less than optimal.

If I remember correctly, FEMA did pretty good that time.