STATE |
Mitch McConnell favorables |
NET |
ARIZONA |
27-58 |
-31 |
COLORADO |
24-63 |
-38 |
GEORGIA |
32-52 |
-20 |
IOWA |
29-55 |
-26 |
KANSAS |
29-52 |
-23 |
MAINE |
22-63 |
-41 |
MONTANA |
32-51 |
-19 |
NORTH CAROLINA |
29-58 |
-29
|
SOUTH CAROLINA |
32-51 |
-19 |
Those are cartoonishly bad numbers, with Republican South Carolina’s net -19 favorability rating being McConnell’s best results.
Of these states, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Maine, and North Carolina are the top-tier races, and all are -20 or worse net favorables for McConnell. He really is toxic. Yet Democrats have never gone after him the way Republicans have tried to use Pelosi to scare voters into voting for them.
Instead, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York has been going off on this weird kick about Herbert Hoover.
It’s clear that someone over in the Senate is really into this Hoover framing, thinking it has juice. But, most Americans aren’t over 100 years old. What’s next, tying Republicans to Grover Cleveland?
And it’s not just Schumer, unfortunately.
Several other Senate Democrats have amplified that archaic “Hoover” attack.
So here’s an idea: instead of using a boogeyman from nearly a century ago, why not use the one that is relevant today.
Make Mitch McConnell the running mate of every Republican running for Senate. Tie them together. Make them best friends. Soul mates, even! Because America knows that McConnell’s priorities aren’t their priorities. And so people need to be clear: a vote for a Republican in a Senate race is a vote for McConnell.
That’s not a choice Republicans can win.