{"id":186389,"date":"2014-02-03T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/03\/it-now-sucks-even-more-to-be-mitch-mcconnell\/"},"modified":"2014-02-03T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T00:05:00","slug":"it-now-sucks-even-more-to-be-mitch-mcconnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/03\/it-now-sucks-even-more-to-be-mitch-mcconnell\/","title":{"rendered":"It Now Sucks Even More to be Mitch McConnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the latest polling from the right leaning Rasmussen polls has him <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/rasmussen-mcconnell-grimes-tied-42-percent\">tied with Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is tied with his Democratic opponent, Alison Lundergan Grimes, at 42 percent each in a new poll by conservative-leaning firm Rasmussen Reports.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Six percent preferred neither of them, and 10 percent were undecided, according to the survey, which was released Monday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rasmussen&#8217;s polls came under fire during the 2010 and 2012 election cycles for regularly overstating the standing of Republican candidates.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that undecideds tend to break for the challenger. (Happy dance!!)<\/p>\n<p>If I were a Democratic political consultant right now, I would be using these numbers to push Matt Bevin, the teabagger running against McConnell in the primary.<\/p>\n<p>What McConnell has going for him, both in the primary and the general, is the sense of inevitability that he intends to convey.<\/p>\n<p>Drive a stake through its heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the latest polling from the right leaning Rasmussen polls has him tied with Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is tied with his Democratic opponent, Alison Lundergan Grimes, at 42 percent each in a new poll by conservative-leaning firm Rasmussen Reports.Six percent preferred neither of them, and 10 percent were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1091],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}