NBC News: McConnell Projected to Win Re-Election in Kentucky

[onehandle]

Source: MSNBC

NBC News projects Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will defeat Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes and be re-elected in Kentucky.

McConnell, the Republican leader in the United States Senate, was a prime target for Democrats eager to focus voters’ frustration with Washington on a big GOP name. His mediocre approval ratings in the state made him a particularly appealing focus for foes, although a much-discussed primary challenge by businessman Matt Bevin in May ended in a blowout.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/nbc-news-mcconnell-projected-win-re-election-kentucky-n241281

[Raine1967]

1. CBS radio is as well. damn.

[Auggie]

2. Hey, Kentucky ... YOU FUCKED YOURSELF AGAIN

[valerief]

23. And Kentucky fucked the whole country. Again. nt

[Auggie]

33. No doubt, though I feel slightly more insulated in California

[blackspade]

42. Uh, whut?

[valerief]

51. Every Republican senator elected fucks the whole country, Mr. Whut. nt

[blackspade]

52. That's true, but not what you said.

Thanks for clarifying.

[valerief]

53. It is what I said. If you can't understand it, you're thinking like a teabagger. nt

[blackspade]

54. Nice uncalled for OTT response....

Save your '"teabagger" comments for actual teabaggers.
There is plenty to be pissed about related to this election without name calling.
Just sayin'

[valerief]

55. Save your "OTT outrage" for real stuff. Makes you look like a...

[blackspade]

56. Oh, for fuck's sake.

Chill the fuck out.

[question everything]

48. Grimes should have embraced Obama instead of running away from him (nt)

[jillan]

3. shit!

[GitRDun]

4. MSNBC is showing 55% to 42%

Hard to believe...

[still_one]

5. so kentucky voted for stagnation

[SummerSnow]

6. Proof people like the stupid

[RockinLeft]

7. Shame on you Kentucky!! Shame on you!

Electing that fraud is akin to murder, as far as I'm concerned.

[randys1]

11. Dont think it is just the ones with power, any republican business person you meet

will fuck you and kill you if it means more money in their pocket

Not shoot you with a gun but they will starve you if it means more money for them, trust me on this, I know from experience

[RockinLeft]

16. Oh, I know. EOM

[davidpdx]

8. FUCK!

[TwilightGardener]

9. Watching CNN analysis, you can assume that independents are Teabaggers/Libertarians.

That will probably hold up across the country. So R's vote R, independents vote R, and even some Dems vote R--she really didn't have a chance.

[randys1]

10. Mitch did say to hell with working people and average people so all the

working people and average people who voted for him, I hope each and every one of you are his first victims.

And he does plan on having victims...

[HoosierRadical]

12. Grimes has no one to blame but herself

And of course the fools who voted for McConnell and the ones who didn't bother to vote at all.

Oh well back to work, the fight goes on.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

20. Agreed! Tired of cowardly Democrats!

She turned off a lot of black voters!

Thanks, Bill and Hillary! As I tried to tell folks, the Clintons' political influence is overblown.

[PatrynXX]

24. Well yes

the moment she avoided the most popular president in recent memory. that was the end of it for her.

[tularetom]

28. You got that right

I guess calling yourself a "Clinton Democrat" isn't the drawing card she thought it would be.

[erpowers]

13. Democratic Turnout

Does anyone have any idea about Democratic turnout? Was Democratic turnout high?

[Beacool]

14. Is anyone surprised?

I'm going to stay away from the news until 11 PM. I don't want to watch the play-by-play. I'm not that much of a masochist. It won't be a good night for Democrats.

[a kennedy]

18. I hear ha........I'm sick

[PatrynXX]

21. Personally as a chess sort of bet

despite the doom and gloom I prefer the .. what people think are conservatives finally get called on. (R) that would be my best hope . too bad it takes out Obama but if it takes one bad election to set things right in 2016 so be it.

but idiot media channels calling elections is so far fucking out of date. They really need to get out of the biz for that. This is not exactly an important election for me. 2016 is. although I kinda hope the Governors aim to the left again

[Beacool]

44. I think that the Republicans taking over the Senate is important.

We can't just jump from 2014 to 2016. Two years is a long time and they can do a lot of damage, aside from blocking Obama's agenda.

[get the red out]

15. I hate Kentucky

I am such a damn fool that I have lived in this ignorant state my whole life. This is a fucking evil place.

[caber09]

17. We prob turned out more D's that voted R, as I said might happen wow not even close

[get the red out]

40. Kentuckians

Are the lowest of the low.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

19. Let me guess: Rachel herself did the honors!

[2naSalit]

22. ONLY 7% OF THE VOTES IN!!!!

I'm hoping for more votes to be counted before the dirge begins.

[iamthebandfanman]

25. Here are OFFICIAL Kentucky Board of Elections results.. *Grimes ahead in it*

has Grimes up 50%-47% at 7:29 ESt



http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/KY/53704/145138/en/summary.html

[alp227]

29. CSPAN has McConnell up 40,000 votes

http://www.c-span.org/election/

19.2% precincts reporting. Wonder why they have different data.

[iamthebandfanman]

30. no idea..

one would hope the official counting office would have a better idea.. but *shrugs*

I will say this tho.. I do expect it to be a McConnell win..
republican voters who were asked what their main issues were in my area said things like 'Benghazi' and 'ebola'...

its the election of the idiots here in the bluegrass state

[KeepItReal]

36. C-SPAN's data looks to be coming from the Associated Press

How does AP have more updated info that the effing KY Board of Elections?

[alp227]

38. I think the media is counting precinct-by-precinct,

the state is using county-by-county.

[LonePirate]

32. That link says 1 of 120 counties reporting

Given the vote totals, it could be that 1 county is Jefferson County. If Grimes leads by only 5 points in an urban county, she is going to be walloped in the far more conservative rural counties, which could easily break 80/20 for the turtle. Extrapolating statewide, that is why they have called the race for him.

[iamthebandfanman]

35. *Counties Completely Reported: 3 of 120 *

is what it says when I look ...


http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/KY/53704/145200/en/md.html?cid=100




but yeah, don't get me wrong.. I expect him to win.

with people coming out of the polls stating that 'ebola' and 'benghazi' were their main reasons for voting republican outta tell ya something about the people in my fair state

[LongTomH]

26. Fuuuuuuucccckkkkk!!!!! I'm so sick of that smarmy, shit-eating.......

......I'm running out of cuss-words!!!!!

[Vogon_Glory]

27. The Burned Hand Teaches Best--Except Here In America

The burned hand teaches best, the old saying goes. Except that here in America, all too many voters will continue to vote Tea-publican no matter how badly Phillips-headed they've been.

[Sparky 1]

31. There's a part of me that says, "Well, you get what you vote for" and another part of me that says,

"He who counts the votes wins."

[grasswire]

34. BOYCOTT KENTUCKY NT

[DonCoquixote]

37. OK Clintons

You drove off Ashley Judd, because she was a capital L-Liberal who openly compared Republicans to the men who raped her. It was fitting, but because you wanted to still be friends with the same people that would glaldy have you shot, you enocuraged Grims, a woman that so far right wing she could not even admit she voted for the same man most of the country did.

Never mind that thanks to Ky's Democrat governor, many people in that sate got medical care, which will soon be corrected now that Mitch is back. Of course, the news will not cover the peopledead who would have lived if Mitch did not destroy what was made.

The lesson that we SHOULD LEARN is that the Clinton way of Democratic Policy is useless. Obama tried to copy it, and right now he is a lame duck. Grimes copied it, and she lost.

Of course, the elsson the media will say is the lie Edrendell sold, that only a true "moderate" can save the country now, which of course means give giv3e and give more to the REAL WELFARE QUEENS, Wall Street!

[Beacool]

43. Obsessed much?

Believe it or not, everything wrong with the Democratic party is not the Clintons' doing. Much to your chagrin and that of some others around here.

[DonCoquixote]

45. but so much of it is

and if she runs in 2016 and loses, the one possible silver lining is that we can finally be rid of the center-right nonsense that has made us lose so much of what we cared for.

But then some people will blame it on Obama, whose mistake was that he did not run from the Clintons when he had the chance.

[Beacool]

46. Utter nonsense...........

[DonCoquixote]

49. NAFTA, The telecommuncations act, Glass-Steagall gutted

none of that is Clinton's, please.

And do not dare say "she was not in office" They were touted andf sols as a paklcage deal, just like they will be come 2016.

[totodeinhere]

39. What a pile of steaming crap. n/t

[blackspade]

41. With 1% in.

The M$M have been shilling,especially Chuck Toad, for McConnell for months....

[workinclasszero]

47. Bend over Kentucky

Your koch brothers overlords or on the way to rape and pillage your state.

Suckers.

[Gloria]

50. I have to fight myself not to descend to cannabalism..

or whatever it is that now makes me ask..."How old is this toad? Will he DIE SOON???"

[madville]

57. I can't believe the polling was that far off in so many races

McConnell was polling +5 for the last month and then wins by +16? Same story in several other states as well. Either all the pollsters got it really wrong or Democratic turnout just didn't occur as projected in these places.