Incumbent in Need of Recall Retains Seat, part 2
Despite his record of pork-barrel politics, Kentuckians have apparently re-elected Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to a 5th term. In fact, unlike many other incumbents, McConnell trotted out his “bring-home-the-bacon” credentials during the campaign as if they were a net-positive:
The Senate Republican leader, facing an unexpectedly tough re-election race, tells diners that his stature and seniority bring dollars-and-cents benefits to the area: $2 million for a job training center, $720,000 to a historic preservation group, $1 million for sewer lines. The flow of federal cash to Kentucky will slow to a trickle, McConnell says, unless voters pick him for a fifth six-year term.
“Your senator, the guy you’re looking at, delivered $500 million for the commonwealth,” McConnell says.
Charming. Far from being a fiscal conservative McConnell’s record on spending represents a lot of what has been wrong with the Bush administration’s budget policies. I suppose we should all be grateful that the Democrats did not achieve the super-majority in the Senate they’d dreamed of, and yet, 24 years of Mitch McConnell would have been enough.
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the one Senate race I am watching now is Minnesota’s. 90% reporting, GOP holds a bare 3K lead over DEM Franken.
It keeps changing. That one’s going to be close…
Now for the first time Franken has a lead
this one is going to go into an automatic recount I bet.
99% with 378 vote diff – favoring Franken at the moment.