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Tuesday, March 11, 2014 2:05:50 AM
Maher, and Geoffrey sp?, "damnit, sp?. always with problems!" .. God and The Flood outed ..
Geoffrey sp?, rocks .. lol .. those are some of your funniest around
CPAC 2014 .. and how about the McConnell vs 'Cruz/P or Palin/C?' Bevin stuff?
Mitch McConnell’s Senate primary turns ugly
02/20/14 07:02 AM—Updated 02/20/14 04:38 PM .. bit ..
The tea party was largely born out of opposition to the massive bank bailout, and Bevin had made McConnell’s vote for the bailout a centerpiece of his campaign. Recognizing the power of the issue, McConnell tried early in the campaign to muddy the waters by labeling his opponent “Bailout Bevin” in ads, citing grants one of his businesses received from the state of Connecticut to help rebuild a burned down factory. With the letter showing Bevin’s onetime praise for TARP, McConnell now has a far more compelling piece of evidence to back up the nickname.
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, 2/18/14, 10:57 PM ET
Will Ted Cruz take down Mitch McConnell?
“Last week was the piece of ammunition that McConnell needed to make the plainest argument they can that this guy was a con man, to use their words,” Scott Jennings, a former McConnell aide who is running a Super PAC supporting the senator’s re-election, told msnbc. “It was sort of the perfect storm of things: it’s not arcane, it’s easy to explain, it’s black and white.”
Jennings predicted that the letter would be “the separation point” in which conservative voters who might have been open to Bevin’s message abandon his campaign. Rand Paul, who buddied up with McConnell for a state event this week after his cringe-inducing Beck interview, told state reporters that the TARP document “does hurt [Bevin’s] credibility.” Over at the Lexington Herald-Leader, the news prompted columnist Sam Youngman to ask “Is This The End For Matt Bevin?”
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/mitch-mcconnells-senate-primary-turns-ugly
links and more there .. i hope all this is looking kinda funny, too ..
March 10, 2014, 10:09 am
GOP poll shows McConnell up big over Bevin
By Alexandra Jaffe
Greg Nash
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has a nearly 40-point lead over his primary challenger, Matt Bevin, in a new Republican survey of the Kentucky Senate GOP primary.
The survey, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies .. http://images.politico.com/global/2014/03/09/ky_us_sen_gop_primary_poll_memo_-_kfsl.html .. for the pro-McConnell group Kentuckians for Strong Leadership, gives McConnell 61 percent support to Bevin’s 23 percent support.
That’s an increase in support from an early-February independent survey .. http://images.bimedia.net/documents/SUSAPOLL+Senate+Race.pdf .. of the race, which showed McConnell ahead by only 26 points. But it’s actually a decrease from the last GOP survey of the race, conducted by Wenzel Strategies .. http://www.wenzelstrategies.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Final-KY-Poll-US-Senate-2-13-2014.pdf .. at the start of February, which gave him a 42-point lead.
It’s likely McConnell’s primary lead is somewhere between those two numbers — significant double-digits, still a favorable position just over two months out from Election Day.
The polling memo also notes McConnell maintains a 33-point lead over Bevin even among voters who say they’ve heard of the GOP challenger, an indication that, even if Bevin manages to increase his profile in the state, he’ll find it difficult to break ahead.
McConnell's persistently high unpopularity has given Democrats reason to believe he's one of the GOP's most vulnerable senators this cycle, but the new survey gives McConnell a surprisingly high approval rating among GOP primary voters, with 67 percent approving of his job performance, while just 25 percent view him unfavorably.
Bevin, in contrast, is seen favorably by just 21 percent of primary voters and unfavorably by 15 percent.
McConnell has sparked the ire of conservatives throughout his career but that frustration ran particularly high last month, when he was one of a handful of Republican senators to vote to raise the debt limit.
The fallout from the move was on display last week when McConnell received a lukewarm reception from activists at the Conservative Political Action Conference just outside of Washington, D.C.
But this survey, which was conducted Feb, 24-26, about 10 days after the vote, seems to indicate he still retains some good will with Republicans.
The survey was conducted among 400 likely Republican primary voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
McConnell is favored in his primary, and expected to encounter Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes in the general election in Kentucky.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/200318-gop-poll-shows-mcconnell-up-big-over-bevin
Geoffrey sp?, rocks .. lol .. those are some of your funniest around
CPAC 2014 .. and how about the McConnell vs 'Cruz/P or Palin/C?' Bevin stuff?
Mitch McConnell’s Senate primary turns ugly
02/20/14 07:02 AM—Updated 02/20/14 04:38 PM .. bit ..
The tea party was largely born out of opposition to the massive bank bailout, and Bevin had made McConnell’s vote for the bailout a centerpiece of his campaign. Recognizing the power of the issue, McConnell tried early in the campaign to muddy the waters by labeling his opponent “Bailout Bevin” in ads, citing grants one of his businesses received from the state of Connecticut to help rebuild a burned down factory. With the letter showing Bevin’s onetime praise for TARP, McConnell now has a far more compelling piece of evidence to back up the nickname.
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, 2/18/14, 10:57 PM ET
Will Ted Cruz take down Mitch McConnell?
“Last week was the piece of ammunition that McConnell needed to make the plainest argument they can that this guy was a con man, to use their words,” Scott Jennings, a former McConnell aide who is running a Super PAC supporting the senator’s re-election, told msnbc. “It was sort of the perfect storm of things: it’s not arcane, it’s easy to explain, it’s black and white.”
Jennings predicted that the letter would be “the separation point” in which conservative voters who might have been open to Bevin’s message abandon his campaign. Rand Paul, who buddied up with McConnell for a state event this week after his cringe-inducing Beck interview, told state reporters that the TARP document “does hurt [Bevin’s] credibility.” Over at the Lexington Herald-Leader, the news prompted columnist Sam Youngman to ask “Is This The End For Matt Bevin?”
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/mitch-mcconnells-senate-primary-turns-ugly
links and more there .. i hope all this is looking kinda funny, too ..
March 10, 2014, 10:09 am
GOP poll shows McConnell up big over Bevin
By Alexandra Jaffe
Greg Nash
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has a nearly 40-point lead over his primary challenger, Matt Bevin, in a new Republican survey of the Kentucky Senate GOP primary.
The survey, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies .. http://images.politico.com/global/2014/03/09/ky_us_sen_gop_primary_poll_memo_-_kfsl.html .. for the pro-McConnell group Kentuckians for Strong Leadership, gives McConnell 61 percent support to Bevin’s 23 percent support.
That’s an increase in support from an early-February independent survey .. http://images.bimedia.net/documents/SUSAPOLL+Senate+Race.pdf .. of the race, which showed McConnell ahead by only 26 points. But it’s actually a decrease from the last GOP survey of the race, conducted by Wenzel Strategies .. http://www.wenzelstrategies.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Final-KY-Poll-US-Senate-2-13-2014.pdf .. at the start of February, which gave him a 42-point lead.
It’s likely McConnell’s primary lead is somewhere between those two numbers — significant double-digits, still a favorable position just over two months out from Election Day.
The polling memo also notes McConnell maintains a 33-point lead over Bevin even among voters who say they’ve heard of the GOP challenger, an indication that, even if Bevin manages to increase his profile in the state, he’ll find it difficult to break ahead.
McConnell's persistently high unpopularity has given Democrats reason to believe he's one of the GOP's most vulnerable senators this cycle, but the new survey gives McConnell a surprisingly high approval rating among GOP primary voters, with 67 percent approving of his job performance, while just 25 percent view him unfavorably.
Bevin, in contrast, is seen favorably by just 21 percent of primary voters and unfavorably by 15 percent.
McConnell has sparked the ire of conservatives throughout his career but that frustration ran particularly high last month, when he was one of a handful of Republican senators to vote to raise the debt limit.
The fallout from the move was on display last week when McConnell received a lukewarm reception from activists at the Conservative Political Action Conference just outside of Washington, D.C.
But this survey, which was conducted Feb, 24-26, about 10 days after the vote, seems to indicate he still retains some good will with Republicans.
The survey was conducted among 400 likely Republican primary voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
McConnell is favored in his primary, and expected to encounter Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes in the general election in Kentucky.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/200318-gop-poll-shows-mcconnell-up-big-over-bevin
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