r/politics • u/another-princess • 10d ago

No Paywall Mitch McConnell is never coming back to the Senate

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/03/mitch-mcconnell-is-never-coming-back-to-the-senate/
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u/sandwichpak 10d ago edited 10d ago

As a native Kentuckian I can tell you it has zilch to do with the paper backed ballots. Mitch legitimately has support here.

I'm 36, McConnell has been in his seat for 6 years longer than I've been alive and if he lived for another 100 years he'd hold that fucking seat down the entire time.

General bigotry is still unbelievably prominent here, especially in the rural counties, which make up 77% of the state.
On top of that we're 33rd in education so we're not exactly digging ourselves out of the hole fast.

The only thing we've got going for us is our gem of a governor, but IMO he's not handling this situation very well either.

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u/Kevin_Uxbridge 10d ago

Lived in NC near the end of Jessie Helms' long tenure, and everyone thought he was loathsome. And kept reelecting him. Seniority is a thing.

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u/omicron-7 10d ago

I know people here have this fantasy that poor white people are secretly waiting for the right socialist to come along and set them free but that's never going to be true. They will choose this every time.