Bluegrass Poll: Grimes leads McConnell in Ky. Senate race

[IDemo]

Source: USA Today

After two polls in his favor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell again has slipped behind Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes, according to the latest Bluegrass Poll.

Grimes, Kentucky's secretary of State, now leads the veteran five-term senator 46% to 44% among likely voters, the survey found. While that advantage is within the poll's margin of error, it represents a 6-point swing to the Democrat since the last survey in late August.

Libertarian candidate David Patterson had 3% support in the poll, while 7% of likely voters said they were undecided.

Whereas the Aug. 28 poll, showing McConnell leading by 4 points, suggested he might be slowly pulling away from Grimes, "today, McConnell suddenly and unexpectedly looks wobbly," said SurveyUSA, which conducted the poll for The Courier-Journal, Lexington Herald-Leader, WHAS-TV in Louisville and WKYT-TV in Lexington.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/10/06/mcconnell-grimes-kentucky-senate-bluegrass-poll/16803821/

[Jack Rabbit]

1. This is what I expected

That August 28 poll came out just after the disclosure of McC's remarks to the Koch brothers' suck up party, and thus that poll did not measure the impact of that event.

Now everybody knows exactly where McC stands . . . in Dave or Charlie's back pocket.

McC will go down and the Democrats will retain control of the Senate with pick ups in Kentucky, Kansas and Georgia.

[johnnyrocket]

2. This race is critical. This should be the Dem's focus.

Yertle goes down, no way they get the majority.

[virgdem]

6. and Yertle the Turtle will end up where he belongs...

head first into the mud. Thanks for the laugh!

[SoapBox]

3. Please, please, please...

Get this POS out of office.

GOTV!

[Dawgs]

4. Every one of her ads should point out his remarks about 'not his job to create jobs for Kentucky'.nt

[ColesCountyDem]

12. A lot of them do.

My local NBC affiliate comes out of Paducah KY, and it's a VERY nasty media war.

[billhicks76]

5. Yes!

Hopefully she gets cash infused from DLC.

[Dopers_Greed]

7. The Dems better not blow this one

This is definitely a winnable race, and it's going to be an embarrassment if we can't beat one of the worst Repug senators. Especially since he is even hated by his own party.

[C Moon]

8. Oh man, I'd wager that it's about to get REAL ugly.

[tjl148]

9. You are very correct.

And I don't think Grimes is going to win.

[TheNutcracker]

10. Vote the chinless bastard out!

[madokie]

11. It would be so cool if she can win this seat

Good for the country too. I'm inclined to believe that Americans for the most part see what the problem is and it isn't Democratic office holders rather its the pukes causing the problems in our country today.

[AnalystInParadise]

13. I don't get the excitement

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2014/senate/ky/kentucky_senate_mcconnell_vs_grimes-3485.html#polls


Like Fox Mulder I want to believe, but outlier polls make it difficult