Is Mitch McConnell in danger of losing?

[JonLP24]

A new survey shows Mitch McConnell polling within the margin of error:

Mitch McConnell: 45%
Democratic opponent: 42%

And there's more -- just 33 percent of registered Kentucky voters approve of McConnell's job performance.

This is an email I got from the DSCC

[Miigwech]

1. He will do a paul ryan before running to lose

[Rocky888]

4. He has control of e vote machine outcomes in Kentucky , like Rick Scott does in Florida.

And if it looks too close they order state police to seize machines and ballots in blue counties.

[Amaryllis]

11. I wondered about that. A lot of them are able to keep "winning" that way.

[diva77]

12. do you have links to any news articles about this?

[BluegrassDem]

19. That's not true at all!

I live here. There's never been a whiff of any shenanigans with the voting machines here. In my county, we have paper ballots too.

[maxsolomon]

2. November 2020 is a long way away.

So, not really. Kentucky's put him there since 1984.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Do people in KY want food and heat and medicine? So far I see the answer is no based on who

they voted for.

Maybe they are changing their minds.

Oh and patriotism, maybe they want some of that now too.

[ProudLib72]

14. Well Eliot, look at those stats

45% will vote for him. 33% approve of him. What is wrong with that 12%? Those are the people who would continue to vote for someone who is slowly killing them just so they can "own the libs". That's republican martyrdom for you.

[JI7]

18. they don't want blacks and mexicans to have those things

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. please help us ditch Moscow Mitch

I don't know how to get fellow Kentuckians out of the cult.

[Yeehah]

7. I feel your pain

I live in Montana now but consider West Virginia home.

Limbaugh, Fox News, etc. has rotted out their gullible minds.

[marble falls]

6. This is more important than which highly qualified Democrat gets to be beat Trump or Pence.

[Amaryllis]

8. Is that any Dem opponent or a specific one?

[JonLP24]

9. Generic Democrat

[GulfCoast66]

10. No chance.

[Awsi Dooger]

15. Agreed...demographics of Kentucky allow no chance

88% white, 43% self-identified conservatives to only 18% liberals, and females do not turn out in similar percentage in Kentucky as elsewhere. Normally women are 53-54% of the vote in presidential years but in Kentucky it is closer to 51%. Heck, even the young voters in Kentucky are more red than elsewhere. The 18-29 bracket favored Trump over Hillary 59-34.

There are lots of silly polls out there that do not account for the fundamentals. This would be one of those 96-4 markets on Predictit. 538 has the partisan lean on this race at R +23.3

[JI7]

17. how about some Joe Manchin Type ?

[Baltimike]

13. Moscow Mitch took *ALL* that tainted, treason cash. nt

[Are_grits_groceries]

16. Supposedly Amy McGrath is going to challenge him.

She would be a great candidate and even though she lost her house race, she now has great name recognition which is a huge plus.
She needs to hit the ground now!

[BluegrassDem]

20. She's too passive. McConnell would eat her for lunch

She ran the most non-aggressive, passive race I've ever seen in my lifetime. She can't run fuzzy ads and expect to beat Mitch. The only Dem that could beat him is someone outside of the box that can't be attacked so easily. UK basketball coach John Calipari would be the type of person that could beat him.

[calimary]

21. Maybe more Kentucky voters are discovering who owns their Senator.

Bought and paid for. Dallas Morning News had it more than a year ago.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/api/amp/theintellectualist/news/mcconnell-received-3-5m-in-campaign-donations-from-russian-oligarch-linked-firm-93UjehU6aUCtejJRBFezCw/