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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitch McConnell: 53,000 votes. Combined Democratic field: 35,000
This was always going to be long odds race, regardless of whom the nominee was.
RandySF
(59,491 posts)bdamomma
(63,940 posts)Kentuckians by the balls. He's a bastard.
Bev54
(10,083 posts)It is my understanding that the majority of the vote of 1.1 million is in mail in ballots about 800,000 and we won't know the results for about a week?? How can you go by just the in person ballots?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)Kentuckians were encouraged to VBM.
onetexan
(13,072 posts)VBM. I dont think the numbers above include VBM #s.
edhopper
(33,646 posts)Wait for the mail in votes.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)how does that work?
blm
(113,119 posts)AZ8theist
(5,519 posts)GusFring
(756 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Tetrachloride
(7,878 posts)brooklynite
(94,808 posts)bdamomma
(63,940 posts)McConnell stealing again, how many times is this?
So did he get in again???
Fucking thief.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)All of you have to do to win in Kentucky is have an R next to your name.
bluedigger
(17,088 posts)The OP is just bemoaning voter turnout based on early results.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Takket
(21,652 posts)standingtall
(2,787 posts)but practically no votes from Jefferson or Fayette County are in yet, although I agree the odds are against whoever the nominee is defeat McConnell, but if the numbers you are citing are the early returns you would expect McConnell or any republican to be ahead this early.The numbers from Louisville and Lexington may not be in until next week.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)responds. Abortion and gay marriage is all they care about.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I am so SICK of these morons! Those things do not affect their lives one bit. If they would just keep their noses out of everyone else's business, the world would be a much better place.
UncleTomsEvilBrother
(945 posts)...no way I'd let an elderly family member of mine (or myself for that matter) go to the polls and stand in those long lines risking contracting COVID.
We'll continue to lose states like KY as long as those with us with the means to change things sit back and let the disenfranchised stay disenfranchised.
JI7
(89,281 posts)in most southern states Democrats count on the black population to help win.
we don't have that here.
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DeminPennswoods
(15,292 posts)and reported that the KY mail-in ballots alone exceeded the usual primary vote.
Silent3
(15,417 posts)Not that Id be shocked for there to be more McConnel voters, but early returns are often very uneven and lopsided, especially when theres a big difference between rural and urban reporting speed.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Takket
(21,652 posts)lots of blue areas yet to report
the voter suppression is working (makes perfect sense people can't vote when all the polling locations are closed)
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Kentucky smashed a primary record.
Mail in voting increases participation.
Crunchy Frog
(26,694 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)If that happens, I might actually start believing that there is a god.
Crunchy Frog
(26,694 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)to keep polling open
EDIT. My data was outdated. Polls have closed
https://amp.courier-journal.com/amp/3237124001
Kid Berwyn
(15,007 posts)Theyre Democrats.
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/23/new_york_kentucky_virginia_primaries
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Still got a shot.