The "know-it-alls" in the media do not know it at all...
Chuck Todd is only the worst of the lot. There are plenty of others.
A case in point is the Alison L. Grimes race in Kentucky. She knows that the President's positives are about 19% in her state. The Democrats that are going to vote will likely vote for her, even if in smaller numbers than usual. She needs to get other voters if she has a chance to win.
Her strategy is to go after Republican women and independent voters. That is one of the reasons she says that she is an "independent Kentucky woman". She understands that Mitch McConnell has very low popularity also, about 30%. Nobody is crazy about the guy. But Republicans have been known to vote for snakes in the grass rather than vote for a Democrat, especially one that voted for Barack Obama.
There is an enthusiasm amongst women voters, especially young, college-aged women, that has not been seen in a long time, if ever. It is contagious. She draws big crowds wherever her bus might stop. Little girls look for autographs and pictures. And Alison is the hardest worker ever to run for office in Kentucky, in my memory.
So, Mitch McConnell is in the race of his life. And he knows it.
Chris Mathews and Ron Reagan were asking why she just didn't come out and say, "Yeah, I voted for Obama but I disagree with him on this issue or that issue..." The reason she doesn't say that is because she wants to get the Independent vote and enough Republican women votes to overtake the Republican Minority Leader in the Senate.
She knows more than the know-it-alls in the media, in my humble opinion.
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How she voted is her business. I can't stand how "the media" takes some insignificant issue and repeat it ad nauseum. They are too damn lazy to do real reporting.
She cast her vote for president as a private citizen and is under NO obligation, whatsoever, to anyone at any time to disclose how she voted in that election any more than the person asking her would be obligated to reveal for whom they voted. A person can offer that info voluntarily but (it used to be) that a question regarding one's political or religious preferences was off limits in a public forum.
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So you hate people trying to figure out the nuances of one of the most nationally significant Senate races because you live there And by your own admission you don't get it...
SOooo, nobody else is allowed to analyze it because you live there and don't get it.
Okay...
Next.
