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Finally! A KY MSM report on Mitch’s all-time low approvals

Joe Sonka October 15th, 2007

(crossposted at BlueGrassRoots)

Well, it only took 5 DAYS, but Mark Herbert has become the first member of the KY mainstream media to report (via his blog) on Mitch’s all-time low approvals in the new SUSA poll (well, at least it was new last week). Herbert gives me no hat tip though, the MSM knows not of these things…

So…. we’re still waiting on everybody at the LHL, CJ, Post, Enquirer and WKYT to even give this poll a mention. These are all of the outlets that gave big coverage to one good poll that Mitch had last month, showing how he “was still safe, despite all of the protests and ads against him”. Oh, and of course the WaPo and US News&WR dutifully picked up that talking point from Mitch’s people, too (just like John Roberts at CNN picked up on Mitch’s Graeme Frost smear, right?).

So, would anyone like to join Herbert, or perhaps detail how McConnell is absolutely hemoraging support among moderates, from +10 to -26????

Anyone? Beuller?

(btw, if anyone has reported this and I’ve somehow missed it, feel free to report it in the comments)

Fox Business News…With Strippers!

Cliff Schecter October 10th, 2007

Actually, it’s more strippers than news. But who’s counting (accept us of course)?

Kentucky Media: McConnell Vulnerable

Shawn Dixon July 29th, 2007

As we pointed out here earlier this week, the main stream media has begun to pick up on the fact that Mitch McConnell is vulnerable, very vulnerable, in next year’s election. Both the Lexington Herald Leader and the Courier Journal ran columns today highlighting Senator Mitch McConnell’s problems heading into 2008.

Larry Dale Keeling at the HL even gives a shout our team here at Ditch Mitch while pointing to the fact that McConnell is also being attacked by his base and highlights DraftForgy.com.

McConnell is skewered daily by blogs on the left (DitchMitchKy) and the right (DraftForgy). He’s already being targeted by TV ads paid for by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and a group called Americans Against Escalation in Iraq.

Meanwhile, Al Cross at the CJ clearly lays out the major problems facing McConnell: his unwavering support for President Bush and his ill-conceived war in Iraq and his failed leadership on the immigration overhaul he fought for before voting to kill at the eleventh hour.

After keeping President Bush’s immigration bill alive, he voted to kill it in the face of energized opposition, including advertising that lumped the Kentucky conservative with liberal lion Teddy Kennedy.

He took a tough public shot from an unnamed colleague speaking through conservative columnist Robert Novak, contending that he failed to show leadership during the closing hours of the immigration debate.

He was the target of attack ads from antiwar groups linking him with Bush’s increasingly unpopular policy in Iraq, as he led the effort to block a vote on legislation that would have started a withdrawal.

While Larry Dale Keeling writes that the Dems don’t really have any “A” list candidates in the upcoming election, Al Cross correctly points out that Stumbo is one of the best campaigners in the party and has a lot of statewide name recognition. And, Keeling himself admits that Iraq war veteran Andrew Horne would be an attractive option for Dems against McConnell in an election that will largely be about the mess in Iraq.