KY-SEN: Amy McGrath in

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New McConnell scandal breaking in the airwaves:

https://mobile.twitter.com/emrazz/status/1158504398164766720

Both sides do that, they use physical violence to win elections.

It is stupid.

0/10, try something less predictable.

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Even a perfect Democratic candidate would still lose to McConnell by double digits, but hopefully McGrath continues to implode, so that Democrats don't bother to flush money down the toilet in this race.

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The only "defeat" Democrats could plausibly give McConnell would be making him Minority Leader, and it kinda baffles me that they still don't get that. Never mind Kansas or Texas, Mississippi would flip before Kentucky.

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Can we plaster the LA-GOV results across the walls of the rooms of people who think McGrath has a chance?

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https://twitter.com/rollcall/status/1189950202259628032

lol.

inb4 they consider a 9% loss "close." These people never learn.

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Yes, Bevin actually did lose (just barely), but gubernatorial races are more likely to buck the partisan lean of a state. Not to mention, Beshear was a far better candidate than McGrath is proving to be. Despite getting the gubernatorial race wrong, I remain convinced that this race is Safe R, even if McConnell does underperform Trump by a decent margin.

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I'll admit that gubernatorial races in red states are (generally) more winnable for Democrats than I thought, but people need to learn that this isn't the case for Senate races. Even if Edwards wins, that doesn't make Cassidy vulnerable, nor does Baker's win make MA-SEN winnable for Republicans. Kentucky appears to be a state where Democrats can still win statewide races (under favorable circumstances), but federal races are a different story.

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Hoping for Booker, but realistically expecting McGrath.

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While I expect McGrath to do better among early votes, Booker really has a chance if he dominates in Jefferson. Obviously either have no chance against McConnell, but it’s hard to argue that Booker isn’t the better candidate.

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I get that it’s frustrating to have to wait for results, and in an ideal world, we’d have very high turnout and get our results quickly and accurately. However, I would much rather wait for results than not make voting safe or sacrifice accuracy.

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NYT has Fayette now, McGrath’s lead down to 6.4%.

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Considering how many votes are left to count in Fayette/Jefferson, and the fact that some absentees were sent in during Booker’s surge (not beforehand), I’m starting to think the madman might just do it. Gonna be very close either way.

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Booker probably needs about a 40-point margin in Jefferson to have a chance now. It’s probably over.

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Well, at least Booker made it respectable. Either way, back to watching #resistance mommies light millions on fire to allow McGrath to lose by 18 instead of 21, while Collins, Daines, Perdue, and Tillis all win by less than 2%. Fun.

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McGrath isn’t a bad candidate because she’s “too centrist”, she’s a bad candidate because she’s gaffe-prone, a grifter, and an empty suit who shows little consistency in her views. Believe it or not, most voters don’t decide who to vote for based on their handy-dandy “centrist calculator”, and sometimes the more progressive candidate also happens to be the better candidate, even if the race isn’t really winnable for either candidate.