What the fuck is a trators ?
What the fuck is a trators ?
They sent McGrath to die so she wouldn't muck up a competitive race, but what if it's ShyamalanTwist.gif and the Senate race was actually the competitive race?!As far as I can tell, McConnell"s endurace comes from him not being hated back then + the fact that Kentucky became solidly republican. He won his first senate race by outing the dem incumbent by only 0.40% of the vote. He was able to survive the 2008 destruction by almost 6 points.
The difference since then is that, around ten years ago, Kentucky voters started to fucking despise Mitch. Thats why Grimes challenged him in 2014 but that election was a Red Wave and Kentucky voters realized "oh shit, I thought about voting for a democrat? nvm lol" so Grimes got crushed.
Would a better opponent do better in a democratic wave year, considering Kentucky voters hate him more than ever? Yeah, its likely.
Will this opponent beat him? Incredibly unlikely.
Thanks for the reassurances and good vibes everyone, I'll need them as Bevin drags this out.
For those curious about KY, the easiest way to understand our politics is that we always run terrible candidates nearly across the board, so people tend to vote on party lines, and very specifically the typical single voter issues of guns and abortion swing people towards the Republican party. It's a sad state of affairs, but Democrats have very traditionally put up fairly poor candidates for most positions to begin with, individuals who just don't resonate with the voters as people and thus fail to overcome any party lines they otherwise might through likability. If Beshear indeed takes this election as he should based upon tonight's results, he'll have succeeded specifically because he campaigned on that sort of platform of reaching out to Kentuckians and as a likable alternative to the famously unpopular and unlikable Matt Bevin.
Which is why I do have a small amount of hope for Amy McGrath. It's still a long shot to get Mitch removed, but she's one of the better candidates I've seen in a while. If sports broadcaster Matt Jones runs, he might be better positioned to take on McConnel actually given he's a well liked presence in the state. Again, it's a long shot, but a senate seat in KY might indeed be in play in 2020.
McGrath has a clear tactic, and its "laser focus on Mitch and dont criticize Trump because otherwise I might be killed" which...is certainly...an strategy.They sent McGrath to die so she wouldn't muck up a competitive race, but what if it's ShyamalanTwist.gif and the Senate race was actually the competitive race?!
I thought people were mostly attracted to the motion controls and easy to understand touch screen gimmicksIt's simple: People are fed up with Trump & the GOP's bullshit.
Car tab initiative is going to win. King county voters voting no at 56% clip. It's down 8 percent
Affirmative Action is getting repealed if the no votes hold onto .5% lead
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
#ElectionNight Won 5 out of 6 elections in Kentucky, including 5 great candidates that I spoke for and introduced last night. @MattBevin picked up at least 15 points in last days, but perhaps not enough (Fake News will blame Trump!). Winning in Mississippi Governor race!
11:37 PM - Nov 5, 2019
Is this a sign that McConnell could be in trouble in Kentucky?
Nah, not really. Even if a historic blue wave carried McGrath and she outfounded McConnell by double the money and she ran a perfect campaign, the race would still be Lean R.Is this a sign that McConnell could be in trouble in Kentucky?
How the black community didn't abandon that state entirely long ago is beyond me. The Great Migration sort of achieved it but the state is still 35% black.
Nervous about ballot initiatives here in Washington. Turn out potentially worse than normal in King county (Seattle), Dems
Make strong margins here, but struggle in most of the state.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
#ElectionNight Won 5 out of 6 elections in Kentucky, including 5 great candidates that I spoke for and introduced last night. @MattBevin picked up at least 15 points in last days, but perhaps not enough (Fake News will blame Trump!). Winning in Mississippi Governor race!
11:37 PM - Nov 5, 2019
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
#ElectionNight Won 5 out of 6 elections in Kentucky, including 5 great candidates that I spoke for and introduced last night. @MattBevin picked up at least 15 points in last days, but perhaps not enough (Fake News will blame Trump!). Winning in Mississippi Governor race!
11:37 PM - Nov 5, 2019
as far as I can tell, yes
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
#ElectionNight Won 5 out of 6 elections in Kentucky, including 5 great candidates that I spoke for and introduced last night. @MattBevin picked up at least 15 points in last days, but perhaps not enough (Fake News will blame Trump!). Winning in Mississippi Governor race!
11:37 PM - Nov 5, 2019
Bevin wound up uniquely unpopular because he, as a state politician, got actual blame for issues like fucking over teachers that congresspeople usually get away with by doing more indirectly. Bevin also got none of the credit for things like anti-choice judges that make R senators popular with their base. Then, Bevin also injected himself into every second of everything like a wannabe Trump and acted like a crass asshole that it was impossible for his potential voters to ignore. He layered a bonus Trumpian effect atop the normal trump effect and made tons of people who otherwise voted straight R vote for beshear.Is this a sign that McConnell could be in trouble in Kentucky?