Facing anger and wearing a bull's-eye, McConnell gets ready for trail

Facing anger, McConnell gets ready for trail
By Sam Youngman
November 09, 2007


Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), wearing a bull’s-eye and fresh off a party defeat in his home state, is ginning up his reelection machine by hitting the air with new television ads.

After Republican Gov. Ernie Fletcher was trounced Tuesday night by Gov.-elect Steve Beshear, national and state Democrats have pointed to the landslide loss as another sign that McConnell is vulnerable.

McConnell’s camp accurately notes that it’s hard for the senator to be afraid when the Democrats have yet to produce an opponent. Still, the minority leader doesn’t seem to be taking any chances.

On Friday, the campaign hit the air with advertisements in the Louisville and Lexington markets, and the campaign has had staffers on the ground since mid-summer.

The McConnell campaign said the TV ads have been planned for months as a way to reintroduce the senator to the commonwealth after the dust had settled from the off-year election.

But national and state Democrats have seized on the buy as evidence that McConnell, whose approval numbers have fallen below 50 percent, is running scared.

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