According to a new Rasmussen Reports poll, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford leads incumbent Mitch McConnell by 5 points, 49%-44%, in Kentucky. According to Rasmussen:
McConnell is far from the only Republican Senator in trouble this fall. In addition to Kentucky, at least nine other Republican Senate seats are potentially in play including seats in Alaska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, Virginia, and Texas. Not all of those race will be won by Democrats, but the fact that so many Republican seats are vulnerable virtually assures that the Democratic Senate majority will grow. The underlying reason that so many Republican seats are at risk is that fewer and fewer Americans consider themselves to be Republicans.
How many U.S. Senate seats will Democrats pick up this November? It's hard to say, but 4-7 certainly seems possible. If there's a "wave" this fall, who knows...could Democrats pick up even more than that? And, as Kos recently pointed out, things could get even BETTER for Democrats in 2010, with no threatened Democrats and a ream of endangered Republicans once again. As we all know, things can change fast in politics, and we should never ever get overconfident. Still, if Mitch McConnell's in trouble...let's just say I'd much rather be on "Team Blue" than "Team Red" right now. How about you?
Do it before the republican spinmeisters convince everybody that the reason they are losing is that they have not been "conservative" enough, and that what the American people really are trying to say is that they want more of the same republican garbage, not less. That's what our Virginia republicans are trying to pull off, if you listen to Cuccinelli, Gilmore, and McDonell (McDonald? I never can get the Atty Gen's name right, sorry)
We've been burned far too many times with the success of this kind of agitprop, when relentless repetition finally turns a republican fairy tale into a reality, and gullible, mentally battered voters acquiesce: "Guess that is what I really think after all; it must be true because I hear it so often" I just do not want that to happen yet again, and do not wish to rely on trusting the media to get the Progressive message across. In other words, I want to replace the defunct conservative "reality" with the received wisdom of Democratic philosophy.
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is the literal leader of the pack when it comes to the obstructionist elephants of the Roadblock Republican party. In his current role as the GOP's Senate Minority Leader, he's still smarting from being knocked out of the top slot by the unexpected changing of the guard in 2006. He is the Roadblocker-in-Chief, the Biggest Block Head of them all, and he is absolutely determined to let nothing that's even remotely tinged with Democratic Blue get passed during the term of the 110th Congress.