KY-SEN: Clintons to make another appearance for Grimes.
FRANKFORT, KY. — Candidates in Kentucky's combative U.S. Senate race are bringing in outside help with two weeks to go as Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes will campaign with Bill Clinton on Tuesday and a trio of Republican congressmen will stump for Sen. Mitch McConnell beginning Monday.
It will be the third visit for Clinton, who won the state twice as a presidential candidate and remains popular with Kentuckians. The former president is a top surrogate for Democrats this fall. But Clinton's latest visit to Kentucky comes after a new Gallup survey shows that, for the first time since 2008, more Kentuckians identify or lean toward Republicans than Democrats.
Kentucky Democrats still lead Republicans by more than 460,000 registered voters. But the Gallup survey, conducted from January to June, shows 45 percent of Kentuckians identify as Republicans while 39 percent identify as Democrats. In 2008, the year Barack Obama was elected president, Gallup said 52 percent of Kentuckians identified or leaned toward Democrats. That number has fallen every year. The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
"The six-percentage-point edge favoring Republicans ... underscores the uphill battle Grimes faces in trying to unseat McConnell," Justin McCarthy wrote for Gallup. "Given typical Republican advantages in voter turnout, the Democratic deficit on partisanship among those Kentucky residents who actually turn out to vote may be even greater than six points."
Republican Party of Kentucky chairman Steve Robertson says the poll reflects the party's recent gains in voter registration. Since 2008, Republicans have added 165,131 voters while Democrats have added 20,424.
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