Grimes Refuses To Say If She Voted For Obama (VIDEO)

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2013 file photo, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, a candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks in Fancy Farm, Ky. Republicans are counting on some Southern comfort to lift them into ... FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2013 file photo, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, a candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks in Fancy Farm, Ky. Republicans are counting on some Southern comfort to lift them into the Senate majority next year. The fate of Democratic incumbents in GOP-trending Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina; the ability of the 71-year-old GOP leader to hold his Kentucky seat and the eventual outcome in a divisive Georgia primary will help decide whether Republicans gain the six seats necessary to grab control for the final two years of the Obama presidency. (AP Photo/Stephen Lance Dennee, File) MORE LESS
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Kentucky Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes refused three times to say if she voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 or 2012, pressed on it during an interview Thursday with the Louisville Courier-Journal editorial board.

“You know, this election isn’t about the president,” she said, calling herself a “Clinton Democrat” and adding that she was a delegate for Hillary Clinton in 2008.

Obama features prominently in the Kentucky U.S. Senate race as Grimes’ opponent, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), has consistently sought to link her to president, who is unpopular in the conservative state.

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  1. I still wonder if McCain voted for himself, if he even got that far in figuring out the ballot.

  2. Uh oh…does that mean Beetljuice is gonna show up?

  3. Jesus Christ. What’s so hard about saying “of course I voted for him, I’m a Democrat !” ? ? ?

  4. In a saner world, they’d be pressing McConnell to find out why he voted for Dubya (twice), who bankrupted the country and got us into an intractable war in the Middle East.

  5. Avatar for jmw jmw says:

    Doesn’t this make someone look worse? I don’t want my Congresspeople weaselly. Everyone knows she’s a Democrat, so why would they be surprised she voted for Obama (I’m sure most Kentuckians assume she did)? Just say you voted for him, and if need be to keep up your centrist cred, turn your answer into a series of things that he has done that failed to live up to your expectations. Having not listened to the interview myself, I’d say if I were an undecided Kentuckian (I’m neither, as a California Democrat), this would make me more inclined to look elsewhere to throw my support.

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