Rerunning Through Kentucky

     Rerunning through the elections in our "Old Kentucky Home"

      Today we're throwing it back to October of 2014. As we remember, we were following the midterm elections for Congress. Over the course of two months, the election shad taken some odd turns. At the beginning of the campaigns, Republican Mitch McConnell was seen as an easy pick. He was familiar with the ways of Kentuckians and he's been a representative for quite some time. The people of Kentucky, at the beginning, were almost completely against Democratic candidate, Alison Grimes. As the elections went on, Grimes was starting to build up her numbers (she also had some help from a past first family, the Clintons).
      This led to tv ads becoming more aggressive from McConnell and stinging retaliation t.v. ads from Grimes. This definitely caused some upset within Mitch McConnell's campaign due to the fact that his "claimed" Kentuckians were changing their minds on him. He starting to barely receive any votes. This to him was just unacceptable. I agree with the Kentuckians voting for Grimes. They needed change and Alison Grimes did have some Democratic views and McConnell tried making her look like Obama's puppet. McConnell was a familiar face to the people and he knew what Kentucky needed but never lived up to what Kentucky really needed out of him. This began to cause confusion and even more doubt about their faith in him.
       The end of the wire was near for the two candidates. Who would it be? The newly needed, hesitant Democrat? Or the unwanted but all-too-familiar Republican? It was a complete toss up between the two and it was anybody's game. But, at the end of the election Mitch McConnell was in for the win. He had his "coal-bashing, gun-grabbing, Republican having" Kentucky back in his clutch. So, maybe experience does give you a major upper hand in this government. Alison Grimes stated that it was "worth the fight", as she has probably gained some new competitive and aggressive experience in the campaigning world.
       But, as great as this is for the Kentuckians, there might be one person that might not be too excited about this. Obama might have a slight problem with another Republican in Congress. "United we stand, divided we fall." Will our good ole President stick by the Bluegrass State's motto? Looks like during the rest of the year we will surely find out.