Don’t taze me bro
McConnell is a senator, so his constituency is the entire state
A moment of rare self awareness?
McConnell appears to be in the Senate?
Wait senators get elected by the entire state? How did I not know this? I thought they represented roughly half the state…
I think many here are wildly overestimating the danger that McConnell is in.
A few things:
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This was a 2019 election. Next year, McConnell will have the benefit of Trump on the ballot at the same time.
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Although Bevin lost, it was still close and the other 5 races went to Republicans.
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Gubernatorial elections are much more locally focused than elections for senator. Kansas and Louisiana have Democrats, and Maryland and Massachusetts have Republicans. But I can promise you that Phil Scott (Republican governor of Vermont) would get his ass kicked if he were to try to run against Leahy, Sanders or Welch.
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Sure, McConnell’s approval rating might be low, but what are voters going to do, elect someone who will go along with Chuck Schumer’s radical agenda?
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I’m more curious how you determined that McConnell had Louisville in his district but Rand didn’t.
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What is most inspiring is the 50% increase in turnout from the last gubernatorial contest in Kentucky.
If we see a trend half that size in 2020 the GOP is in serious trouble.
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This tweet screams scavino right? I know there’s no confirmation he tweets independently but stuff like the Trump tower Greenland photoshop is in no way done by trump himself even linking the image.
meh that’s pretty iffy
Gulag Graham
Grahamachev
Red Lindsey
https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1191934305712390145?s=19
Sorry, LFS I meant to reply to thread here.
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Bevin is unlikely to look into that.
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Absolutely nothing good for Trump in this article:
Cliffs: a majority of voters think he’ll win reelection, including 81% of Republicans… and many many people are going to be thinking specifically of him when voting. The level of fear he’s created inside the Dem base is palpable on this board every day, and the level of motivation people will have to go to the polls a year from now is going to be slightly crazy.
The GOP is mathematically fucked in a truly high turnout election. That’s a big part of why their goal for my entire lifetime has been to suppress turnout as much as possible. Trump is breaking their whole strategy.
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I’m sorry, but hahahaohwow.jpg @you.
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Indeed, about four in 10 voters say they will be thinking “a lot” about Trump while casting their ballot for president next year, including 68 percent of Republicans.
Should be higher.
Yeah it turns out I’m not all knowing 
. Somehow I was absolutely dead certain that Senators had districts just like members of the house.
Don’t give republicans any ideas. They could probably run with this idea in an effort to gerrymander reliably blue states flipping them from 2 D’s to 2 R’s.
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More like bundle all the cities together somehow and get 1D and 1R out of a place that should be 2D’s… but yeah. To be fair though if that’s how it worked KY would be 1D 1R as well because Louisville would have to go in one half and it would absolutely capsize that contest.
It all makes much more sense now that I understand how it actually works. I’d always wondered how a state that somewhat frequently had Democrat governors had zero Democratic senators but I never cared enough to check. LOL me I guess.