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February 23, 2019

Ditch Mitch Releases Startling Credible Poll Results on the 2020 Kentucky Senate Race

By Stephen Fox

"This is why we created Ditch Mitch, why we're building a grassroots movement dedicated to take him on and defeat him next November. If we can convince even just half of the undecided voters to support Mitch's Democratic opponent, we'll be within striking distance; if we register enough voters and show a fraction of the Republicans who don't like McConnell why they should Ditch Mitch, we'll win. We are taking on a behemoth."

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The shift in polling numbers from the last go around seem to clearly collaborate that all of his antics in the guise of "Majority Leadership" which are but in fact no more than corporate manipulation, obstructionism to keep the Billionaires happy, the destructive and disastrous government shutdown, and his tactics with judicial appointments~~~that all of these have combined to rankle his loyal (and maybe not so loyal?) supporters in Kentucky.

Like the conventional political "wisdom" that seems to impale almost all of us some of time, I had always assumed that the Majority Leader in the Senate was electorally impregnable. (That would be also to forget Tom Daschle taking a beating when he was Senate Majority Leader and losing to the Republican)

Mitch has been so audacious in his support of Trump's agenda and Trump's judicial appointments, I just subconsciously assumed that he must truly have an unassailable position in his Kentucky electorate. But nothing in modern politics is unassailable and impregnable, is it?

I started getting emails from a group called Ditch Mitch, full of pithy slogans and clever tactical maneuvers, but today, when I saw the newly released Public Policy Polling about Mitch in Kentucky in 2020, I am taking this far more seriously. I haven't yet been able to precisely determine who started the effort, but will update when I do so.

Ditch Mitch released a new poll conducted by Public Policy Polling in McConnell's 2020 Senate race. The poll shows that Mitch McConnell is deeply unpopular in Kentucky.

When we asked about Mitch McConnell's job performance, 33% of Kentucky voters said they approved compared to 56% who said they disapproved. His approval numbers are underwater, which is what pollsters call a net approval rating of -23%. Compare these numbers to where Mitch McConnell was in 2013 before his last reelection in 2014; his net approvals were negative 3% Mitch has become much more unpopular over the last several years.

We asked whether or not voters thought Mitch McConnell deserved to be reelected. Similar to his job performance numbers, even worse for McConnell, only 32% said they thought Mitch deserved to be re-elected, compared to 61% who said it is time for someone new.

Easy to look at these numbers and say, "Yes, but Donald Trump won Kentucky by 30% in 2016. A Democrat can't win in Kentucky." We dug into the data, we found more trouble for Mitch. Among people who voted for Trump, 36% disapprove of McConnell and 40% think it's time for someone new. People who voted for Mitch in 2014 have soured on him: 30% of his own voters now disapprove and 32% say it's time for someone new.

McConnell is not popular in Kentucky, even among his Republican and Trump base; there is a clear path to defeat him in 2020.

Now, the bad news: Despite how unpopular Mitch McConnell is in Kentucky, he holds a narrow 3 point lead over a potential Democratic challenger.

When we asked, "If the election for US Senate were held today, would you vote for Republican Mitch McConnell, or his Democratic opponent?," 45% said they would vote for McConnell, 42% for his Democratic opponent, and 12% were not sure.

Trump voters who, despite not liking Mitch, would vote for him if the election were today. Mitch still has a lead.

This is why we created Ditch Mitch, why we're building a grassroots movement dedicated to take him on and defeat him next November. If we can convince even just half of the undecided voters to support Mitch's Democratic opponent, we'll be within striking distance; if we register enough voters and show a fraction of the Republicans who don't like McConnell why they should Ditch Mitch, we'll win.

We are taking on a behemoth; already, Mitch McConnell's team is scrambling to discredit our poll to reporters. But the numbers are sound; Public Policy Polling who conducted the poll is one of the most reputable polling firms in the country. The fact that they are so scared of the numbers gives confidence that they know the polling shows Mitch is vulnerable.

We can defeat Mitch McConnell; we have a game plan, we know who to target, and now all we need is resources to support his future Democratic opponent and fight back against Mitch's corporate war chest.

(Article changed on February 23, 2019 at 18:47)

(Article changed on February 23, 2019 at 23:40)



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Authors Bio:



Early in the 2016 Primary campaign, I started a Facebook group: Bernie Sanders: Advice and Strategies to Help Him Win! As the primary season advanced, we shifted the focus to advancing Bernie's legislation in the Senate, particularly the most critical one, to protect Oak Flat, sacred to the San Carlos Apaches, in the Tonto National Forest, from John McCain's efforts to privatize this national forest and turn it over to Rio Tinto Mining, an Australian mining company whose record by comparison makes Monsanto look like altar boys, to be developed as North America's largest copper mine. This is monstrous and despicable, and yet only Bernie's Save Oak Flat Act (S2242) stands in the way of this diabolical plan.

We added "2020" to the title.


I am an art gallery owner in Santa Fe since 1980 selling Native American painting and NM landscapes, specializing in modern Native Ledger Art.


I have always been intensely involved in politics, going back to the mid's 1970's, being a volunteer lobbyist in the US Senate for the Secretary General of the United Nations, then a "snowball-in-hell" campaign for US Senate in NM in the late 70's, and for the past 20 years have worked extensively to pressure the FDA to rescind its approval for aspartame, the neurotoxic artificial sweetener metabolized as formaldehyde. This may be becoming a reality to an extent in California, which, under Proposition 65, is considering requiring a mandatory Carcinogen label on all aspartame products, although all bureaucracies seem to stall under any kind of corporate pressure.


Bills to ban aspartame were in the State Senates of New Mexico and Hawaii, but were shut down by corporate lobbyists (particularly Monsanto lobbyists in Hawaii and Coca Cola lobbyists in New Mexico).


For several years, I was the editor of New Mexico Sun News, and my letters to the editor and op/eds in 2016 have appeared in NM, California, Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and many international papers, on the subject of consumer protection. Our best issue was 10 days before Obama won in 2008, when we published a special early edition of the paper declaring that Obama Wins! This was the top story on CNN for many hours, way back then....


My highest accomplishments thus far are

1. a plan to create a UN Secretary General's Pandemic Board of Inquiry, a plan that is in the works and might be achieved even before the 75th UN General Assembly in September 2020.


2. Now history until the needs becomes clear to the powers who run the United Nations: a UN Resolution to create a new Undersecretary General for Nutrition and Consumer Protection, strongly supported ten years ago by India and 53 cosponsoring nations, but shut down by the US Mission to the UN in 2008. To read it, google UNITED NATIONS UNDERSECRETARY GENERAL FOR NUTRITION, please.


These are not easy battles, any of them, and they require a great deal of political and journalistic focus. OpEdNews is the perfect place for those who have a lot to say, so much that they exceed the limiting capacities of their local and regional newspapers. Trying to go beyond the regional papers seems to require some kind of "inside" credentials, as if you had to be in a club of corporate-accepted writers, and if not, you are "from somewhere else," a sad state of corporate induced xenophobia that should have no place in America in 2020!

This should be a goal for every author with something current to say: breaking through yet another glass ceiling, and get your say said in editorial pages all over America. Certainly, this was a tool that was essentially ignored in 2016, and cannot be ignored in the big elections of 2020.


In my capacity as Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News, Fox interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.prlog.org/10064349-mikhail-gorbachev



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