Can McConnell be defeated in Ky.?

[NYCButterfinger]

Why do Kentucky Democrats put up candidates like Alison Grimes and McGrath?

I'm not from Kentucky, but how does this guy get reelected over and over?

[Raven123]

1. No

[DemsIn2020]

2. No chance

[gopiscrap]

18. welcome to DU

[imanamerican63]

3. Money and power!

[still_one]

4. and just who do you think would win in Kentucky? If we take back the senate McConnel can go fuck

himself

[NYCButterfinger]

8. Someone like a Ben Chandler or Steve Beshear

You need a pitbull to deal with McConnell

John Thune bounced Tom Daschle in 2004

Democrats should have learned to fight fire with fire

[NYCButterfinger]

10. The man can barely walk, he's 78 years old

Ben Chandler or someone else should have ran

[Norbert]

23. Strom Thurmond was 95 but kept getting reelected Senator from South Carolina

His heart gave out or I believe he would still be reelected today.

McConnell has the uncanny ability to parlay his unpopularity into 'sure I'm bad but my opponent is even worse'. Works every time unfortunately.

[SharonAnn]

26. He was the incimbent racist.

[Claustrum]

5. We hate McConnell because he broke all the rules and are successful as an evil.

But if you are on the other side, you might personally hate him but he successfully got tons of people on the court and now possibly a 6-3 SC. You will vote for him to reward what he did.

[Proud liberal 80]

6. I agree Democrats not learning a lesson

And always nominating the same tired old “safe” candidate who can “appeal” to voters who are never going to vote for them anyway....would have liked to see them take a chance with Booker

[GulfCoast66]

15. I somewhat respectfully disagree.

We gave away the Florida Governor’s race in 18 by nominating the ‘progressive’ candidate. Who is now proven to be a train wreck.

Had we gone with the traditional pick we would have a Democratic Governor now.

Kentucky is not voting against McConnell. No matter who we run.

States like Florida and especially Kentucky are not electing progressives.

[Codeine]

7. It's fucking Kentucky.

Nobody left of Attila the Hun is going to win there.

[rusty fender]

24. This!

[TreasonousBastard]

9. He owns that seat. Why, I do not know, but no doubt many palms are greased. Our only...

real hope is to take over the Seante and reduce him to grovelling.

[JI7]

11. Only if they can be told they can vote Trump and Mcgrath

[tavernier]

12. Not unless he gave RBG some Russian tea.

And I’m pretty sure he would have if he could .

[In It to Win It]

13. Anyone is defeatable.. in theory

[NYCButterfinger]

14. Is anyone here from Kentucky?

How does he win?

Why does he win?

[GulfCoast66]

16. Went to university there.

Family still lives there. McConnell win win easily.

Very white, uneducated and evangelical population.

Trump will do better there than most any other state.

Louisville and Lexington are bright blue. Parts of Northern Kentucky is not too bad. The rest of the state is worse than Alabama.

And the rural percentage of the population is very high.

[Bayard]

17. There are a number of Kentuckians on DU

And we're tired of people assuming we're all a bunch of hick dimwits here.

McConnell is where he is because of habit and money. He's been there so long that people have forgotten they even have a choice. And while he thumbs his nose at small towns and the coal miners he promised to help, he has big money thrown at him by the wealthy in Louisville and Lexington (even though they are fairly Dem these days). Its old money. Not only here, but nationwide by the McNasties who get what they want from him. And then there's the Russians.

Amy McGrath can beat him. But the ads he runs about her are particularly venomous lies. I wish Bloomberg would give her a bundle.

Last time I saw the stats, he had the worst approval ratings here (32%), than any other senator in their states.

[kentuck]

20. It depends a lot on turnout.

There are more Democrats in KY than Repubs. If they turn out and the Republican vote is depressed, as it seems to be with McConnell, I would think McGrath has a shot at it.

[Bayard]

30. This!

[kentuck]

31. :-)

[BlueStater]

19. No.

His own constituents don’t seem to like him all that much, yet he’s comfortably reelected every single time. I guess their deranged hatred of Democrats easily exceeds their dislike of McConnell.

[MineralMan]

21. Almost certainly not.

Sad to say that, but there it is.

[Mariana]

22. About 50% of the population of the state are Evangelical Christians.

The overwhelming majority of Evangelical Christians vote Republican.

[Jose Garcia]

25. Not by a Democrat

[crickets]

27. Not likely, but that's no reason to concede the seat.

At least make him work for it. Kentucky will never change if Dems don't put in the effort.

[Earthshine2]

28. The way to fight McConnell is not to fight in KY, but to fight him everywhere else.

Send him back to being the filibustering minority leader.

[Yavin4]

29. His state is dirt poor and racist. That's what gives him his power.

All that he has to do is appeal to their racism, and he wins out every time. He doesn't have to improve their health care, their education, their jobs, nothing. Just appeal to their racism and he wins.

No being held accountable by his people allows him free reign to do whatever he wants, and he's not the only Republican that can do this. Several others can do the same.

[Wanderlust988]

32. As a Kentuckian, Mitch could've been defeated

With the right candidate. Kentucky politics is a back slapping, good ol' boys network. And that's for Democrats too. And we do like our family dynasties here. That's why we have Gov. Beshear. Democrats can and will win in the state so long as you come across as a Kentuckian more than anything. If people feel like you're one of them, they will trust you and vote for you.

One thing Kentuckians love is UK basketball and Matt Jones, the hugely popular sports radio and TV host flirted with running against Mitch. He's just the type of person that could've beat him. He's from Appalachia, but a true progressive and hugely popular with this ubiquitous media appearances about UK sports. But he chose not to run and we got stuck with Amy McGrath who has a severe foot in the mouth disease and keeps making a lot of gaffes and runs a very uninspiring campaign.