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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcTurtle is up for reelection in 2020, and he plans to run.
Really hope he gets swept away by the second Blue Wave!
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McTurtle is up for reelection in 2020, and he plans to run. (Original Post)
MoonRiver
Nov 2018
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monmouth4
(9,694 posts)1. As my mother used to say, "We'll see about that!"...n/t
Mystery sage
(576 posts)2. Yes more like public enemy #1
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)3. We need to get boots on the ground when campaigning starts
to get this asshole out of there. Get people in every part of the state. Is Kentucky gerrymandered? If so dems need to get working on that right away.
Staph
(6,251 posts)4. Gerrymandering doesn't matter
In a US Senate race.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)5. Main thing is to find an excellent Dem candidate.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)8. They had a good candidate in 2014
in Allison Grimes - the polling was fairly close even until September, but as the election got close and McConnell pulled away and won handily, 56% to 41%
There was talk of Ashley Judd running early on in 2014 before Grimes got into the race.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)9. Allison made a HUGE mistake when she distanced herself from Obama.
I think that's what did her in.
hatrack
(59,583 posts)6. By which time he'll be nearly 79 years old . . . .
At least a chance that he might not run for health reasons.
MineralMan
(146,286 posts)7. I hope voters send him home to spend more time annoying his wife.