Comments on: Bruce Lunsford (D) leads Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R)

By: Kenneth Stepp

Kenneth Stepp — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:36:46 +0000

Only 195,168 Republicans voted, when 619,567 Democrats voted in Kentucky on primary day? I’ve been accused of being an optimist, but those figures look awfully good for Bruce. Maybe Bruce can Ditch Mitch without even campainging.

By: kilowat

kilowat — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:49:30 +0000

Democratic Voter…Total Registered: …1,629,845
Total Voted: …619,567 ..38.0% turnout

Mitch didn’t have to good of showing 27k voted against him!!!
Republican Voter .. Total Registered:.. 1,040,438
Total Voted:.. 195,168 only 18.8% turnout

By: Joe Sonka

Joe Sonka — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:06:02 +0000

Denial can be funny, Simon.

And you’re referring to the record turnout in the Democratic primary a week ago? *snicker*

Clap harder Simon. Don’t let those hard numbers get you down. Think happy thoughts…

By: Simon Tell

Simon Tell — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:51:05 +0000

1) Wicked Handiwork of George Bush? Is this a little kids book?

2) The poll that every democrat is citing as the beginning of the end for Mitch is wrong. As you know according to exit polls George W. Bush had lost the 2004 election, but we know how that turned out. This poll is erroneous. Less than two weeks ago the Herald-Leader had a poll that had Mitch winning by 11 points. Can anybody name an act that has occurred in the last week that suggests a 15 point movement in the polls?

3) 81,000 Democrats in the May 20th primary abstained from voting in the Senate Primary because they did not have a good candidate. Or maybe because the Republicans have a better one.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:24:14 +0000

Hey Mitch,
Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey-ey, goodbye.

By: Joe Sonka

Joe Sonka — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:55:04 +0000

Woot.

By: KyWomanVoter

KyWomanVoter — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:41:41 +0000

AMAZING! This poll highlights a great opportunity for the Clintons to help us DITCH MITCH! I hope they’ll return to Kentucky this summer to campaign HARD for Obama and Lunsford. They could show their clout and demonstrate party unity by supporting Obama and helping unseat McConnell in one fell swoop! I think that the Kentuckians who have sworn they will not vote for Obama will vote for him and Lunsford if the Clintons come here and explain the disastrous consequences for our country of voting for McConnell/McCain instead. Helping the Democrats DITCH MITCH is one way they return to the good graces of Democrats all over the country.

By: kycal

kycal — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:48:01 +0000

Ride the wave Bruce, ride the wave. Wouldn’t it be a fun day to be in McConnell’s office when he got the news. Everyone put your boots, raincoats, and a hat on M(B)itch is about to start throwing feces. Go Bruce!

By: CW

CW — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:31:38 +0000

Are these people seriously suggesting that the superdelegates throw their votes to Hillary because Obama is BLACK??
Have we Democrats actually dropped to that level of desperation and stupidity?

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/poll_hillary_beats_mccain_in_k.php

Barack Obama’s Appalachia problem couldn’t be more apparent in a new Rasmussen poll, with Hillary Clinton winning Kentucky in the general election, and Obama losing it in a landslide:
McCain (R) 57%, Obama (D) 32%
Clinton (D) 51%, McCain (R) 42%
Sample size: 500 likely voters.
Margin of error: ±4%
Obama has done well among white voters in many other parts of the country, but the Appalachian region has become something of a no man’s land for him. And with that region spanning a lot of electoral votes, this poll definitely gives some weight to Hillary Clinton’s arguments on electability.
………………….. snip ………………………………….
Newsweek: Obama’s Appalachia Problem Is Real
By Greg Sargent - May 26, 2008, 11:35AM
It’s become accepted wisdom in this campaign that Obama’s problem with working class voters is largely confined to Appalachia. But in the current issue of Newsweek, writer Evan Thomas claims that even if this is the case, this could still prove to be a major problem:
Appalachia is a big place, encompassing 13 states: southwestern New York, western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, West Virginia, western Maryland, western Virginia, eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, western North and South Carolina, and northern Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. You cannot afford to lose all those states and still win in November. Other pollsters have suggested that the race factor is at least noticeable in a much wider swath of rural America, where 60 million voters reside….
Your mission is to not wind up like Kerry, who ended up losing the rural vote by 20 points. The “reality,” writes Davis, “is that when Democratic candidates run competitively in rural America, they win national elections. And when they get creamed in rural America, they lose.”