The same Kentucky governor’s race poll that the Daily Kos elections crew highlighted Friday morning has bad news for Republicans all around in the state, and Mitch McConnell is no exception.
"U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell is also disliked with 56% of respondents viewing him unfavorably," the polling memo from Clarity Campaign Labs on behalf of the Democratic Attorneys General Association, says, "while only 39% view him favorably. 43% of Kentuckians expressed very unfavorable views of Senator McConnell." Join the club, Kentucky. The rest of the nation hates him even more—60% of us, in fact. None of that erases the advantage Republicans have in Kentucky, where Trump won the state by 30 points. But this poll has the plurality of respondents, 45%, in Kentucky saying the state is on the wrong track. That's not good for any incumbent, particularly one who's hated by 43% of his constituents.
McConnell has never been wildly popular in his state and yet manages to plow his way back into office with the brute force of being willing to destroy everything in his path. He keeps getting away with it, somehow. The fact that he's allowed nearly a quarter of a million gun deaths since 2014 by refusing to act could possibly make a difference this time.
We can't count on that, or on anything good coming out of Kentucky. That means we have to work that much harder to take the Senate back in 2020, and elect Democrats who will be willing to nuke the filibuster.
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