McConnell easily brushes off McGrath and claims a seventh term in the U.S. Senate

[alp227]

Source: Lexington Herald-Leader

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell brushed off a challenge by Democrat Amy McGrath Tuesday to win his seventh term as the rest of the country anxiously awaited the results of a contentious presidential election.

McConnell’s status as majority leader remains up in the air. It’s unclear which party will win a majority in the Senate after the COVID-19 pandemic changed voting patterns across the country and could potentially delay election results in several battleground states.

In what has been a tumultuous political year, the race between McGrath and McConnell appeared almost unalterable from the beginning. McConnell maintained a steady lead over McGrath in the polls through the impeachment of President Donald Trump, through the COVID-19 pandemic and the record unemployment that followed it, through a national reckoning on race, and through the loss of a liberal icon on the Supreme Court.

Read more: https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/election/article246780392.html

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McConnell has 56% as of now. Live results: https://www.courier-journal.com/elections/results/race/2020-11-03-senate-KY-18783/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. WTF is wrong with KY?

[Just_Vote_Dem]

6. They're still fighting the Civil War?

[Sgent]

19. KY

was never in the civil war.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

20. Thanks, I was way off n/t

[birdographer]

21. My thoughts exactly

Not sure those folks are even aware of McConnell. No TVs in the shabby campers.

[Warpy]

36. Sad to say, there are a lot of places Democrats need to run white males to win

against entrenched old bastards like McConnell.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Sad.

[SheltieLover]

3. Shame on KY!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

4. Idiots.

[Baltimike]

5. boycott them.

[KatyBR]

7. How can they call this state when only 54% of votes are counted?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-elections/kentucky-president-results?icid=election_usmap

Seems like an article that was written prior to today's vote...

[rpannier]

16. The same way they've called Illinois for Durbin

Virginia for Warner (right now Warner trails by about 15% of the counted vote), Capito, Imhof and Shaheen

[yaesu]

8. Next they will change the Capital to Putinstan

but seriously,voter suppression & fox news lobotomies seem to have one the day.

[BKDem]

9. Maybe he'll die before he takes office.

Too harsh? Well, there’s a lot of death going around, so I feel OK suggesting favorites.

[birdographer]

23. I guess I am harsh as well

He's an old guy with a lot of health problems (bruised-blue hands recently, etc.) and he has to be aware he his hated by decent Americans. Keeling over is an option.

[IronLionZion]

10. Yeah well Dems can still take the majority

and he can be a frustrated powerless minority leader who can't quit because Gov Beshear would just appoint a Dem to his seat, maybe Amy McGrath.

[Historic NY]

11. Apparently they don't care about covid or anything else except coal

[bucolic_frolic]

12. I doubt much has changed there

since Prohibition moonshiners.

[calimary]

13. Shit.

I still hope we knock him out of the majority leader position, though.

[Totally Tunsie]

14. Damn.

[efhmc]

15. This does not surprise me in any way.

[flibbitygiblets]

17. The silver lining is the turtle will have to watch helplessly as the Senate is overtaken by Dems

turtle-soup anyone?

[StClone]

25. Mitch know ways to cause trouble even as a Minority leader

He is the dirty old bastard of politics no money too small no trick too cheap to thrill the reptile brain still responding to evil deeds.

[Turin_C3PO]

29. That's why Dems

must get rid of the filibuster.

[quakerboy]

18. Very dissapointing

but not actually surprising.

[Evolve Dammit]

22. My God KY. WTF is wrong with y'all? All critical thinking just bred out of ya'll? Sorry Dems.

[pfitz59]

24. just proves Kentucky is full of morons

sad state

[FakeNoose]

26. Let's make sure Moscow Mitch hates his new job as Senate Minority Leader

[Miles Archer]

27. As I've said many times...

...this was not unexpected if you've seen some of the interviews with Kentucky voters that have aired on MSNBC and elsewhere.

Sure, he has terrible approval ratings. But what you hear consistently is "he's been my Senator all my life, so..."

It was inevitable. We flipped Colorado. If we flip 3 more states. McConnell is the Senator for Kentucky and no longer Senate majority leader. That's the outcome we need to focus on.

[kyburbonkid]

28. What can I say;

KY is dumb as rocks.

[EndlessWire]

30. What's wrong with Kentucky

You just have to wonder why they would reelect this bastard. They have only themselves to blame. This is why we can't have nice things. What idiots.

[chowder66]

31. Disgusting.

[Sparky 1]

32. Proving once again you can't fix stupid.

[Brainfodder]

33. Treason is fine apparently with KY?

Same for SC, really, Lady G, AGAIN?

[niyad]

34. I hope he finishes rotting and just strokes out.

[dustyscamp]

35. I can't stop seeing him chuckle to himself

MF!!!

[Crowman2009]

37. On the plus side, he doesn't have very long to live.

Apparently Kentucky likes to vote for zombies.

[C Moon]

38. Seeing echos of 2016. We also thought he would be outed...wasn't.

I still firmly believe there is some hanky-panky going on with our voting booths.
That's why the GOP and TrumPutin didn't want to allow the mail in votes.

Whatever happens in this election, we need to go back to paper ballots, and get rid of the god damned Electoral College.

[TexasBushwhacker]

39. VOTER SUPPRESSION!!!

Kentucky has 3,565428 registered voters. They had a total turnout of 2,134,996 (59.9%9.

Kentucky has 1,568,690 registered Republicans (44% of all KY registered voters). McConnell got 1,233,061 votes for a turnout of over 78%.

Kentucky has 1,672,380 registered Democrats (47%). McGrath got 816,150 votes, for a turnout of 48%.

Kentucky has 324,358 registered as something other than Democrat or Republican. The Libertarian candidate received 85,349 votes, or 4% of the total votes cast.

I realize that being a registered Republican or Democrat dies not bind one to vote for their registered party HOWEVER, going by a straight party line, McGrath should have gotten 1,003,448 votes; 187298 MORE (23% more than she got).

Conversely, McConnell should have gotten 44% of the total, or 939,398. Instead, he got 1,233,061, an overage of 293663 votes or 31.2%!

With a less than 20% approval rating from Kentuckians, how did MoscowMitch swing this?

BTW, when he was reelected in the 2014 midterms he got 56.2% vs 57.8% this time around. 2008 he got 52.97% and in 2002 he got a whopping 64.7%.

[onenote]

41. Party registration in the south is not an indicator of who voters support

Maybe some folks don't know the history of the South and the Democratic party.

Once upon a time, voters in Kentucky registered as Democrats and elected Democrats -- Southern Democrats, who opposed the Civil Rights Act and eventually turned into Republicans. So you have lots of folks who originally registered as Democrats but who don't support Republicans because Republicans are what Southern Democrats used to be.

If you look at the numbers, you'll see that new registrations in southern states overwhelming tilt in favor of Republicans. Indeed, in some states, registered Democrats still outnumber registered Republicans, but the number of registered Democrats has been declining precipitously and the number of registered Republicans sharply increasing.

One of the stupid arguments that Republicans make is that it is the Republican party, not the Democratic Party, is the party of civil rights because a greater percentage of Democratic members of Congress opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act than Republicans. It's a stupid argument because the Democrats that opposed the Civil Rights Act turned into Republicans and the voters that had supported those candidates when they were Democrats continued to support them when they became Republicans, even though those voters didn't bother to change their registration. Arguing that there is something nefarious indicated by the fact that southern states with lots of registered Democrats are voting for Republicans is ignore history.

[usajumpedtheshark]

40. Hopefully a new DoT Inspector General will now be able to complete the McConnell/Chao investigation