I’d love for this to be wrong but it looks like McConnell is going to pull out a big win tomorrow against Bevin unless something spectacular happens:
THE HILL – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) maintains a significant lead over his primary challenger, but is in a statistical dead heat with Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes for November, a new poll suggests.
A Bluegrass Poll released Sunday by The Courier-Journal found 55 percent of likely Republican voters support McConnell.
Just over a third support Matt Bevin, a businessman backed by the Tea Party, who will face McConnell in the GOP primary on Tuesday.
Three other Republican candidates split 5 percent of the vote, and 5 percent said they were undecided.
Looking toward November, the poll found 43 percent of registered voters in the state favor Grimes while 42 percent back McConnell, who has served five terms in the Senate.About a third of voters approve of McConnell’s job in the Senate, compared to more than half who disapprove of it.
Only 29 percent have a favorable view of McConnell and nearly half have an unfavorable view.
A majority of registered Republicans, the poll found, said they agree with Bevin’s argument that McConnell hasn’t done enough to stop ObamaCare or cut federal spending.
Despite his disapproval rating, half of voters say Bevin is too inexperienced.
McConnell could have a tougher time in the general election. Thirty-nine percent of Bevin’s supporters said they would back McConnell in November, but a quarter said they would cross party lines.