Milbank: Grimes puts Kentucky back in play
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. • Last week, the national Democratic Party left Alison Lundergan Grimes for dead.
So why does she still have a pulse?
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee said it was stopping its TV ads for Grimes, the Kentucky secretary of state and the Democrats’ challenger to Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader.
In political Washington, this was a nail in the coffin, coming after the candidate’s embarrassing and repeated refusal to say whether she voted for President Obama and the televised pronouncement of "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd that she had "disqualified herself" — a clip McConnell’s campaign gleefully replayed in his ads.
But Grimes’ look into the abyss did her some good. In politics as in medicine, near-death experiences have a way of changing one’s outlook. When I visited Kentucky on Wednesday to see Grimes on the campaign trail, I saw a candidate who was much less cautious and scripted than the one I had been hearing and reading about. It was as if the reduced expectations had liberated her.
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...traveling the state and meeting people. She is a very likeable person and she has generated a lot of grass roots support. If every state had as much enthusiasm as Kentucky in this election, the Democrats would take back the House and keep the Senate, also. Everything that Mitch's campaign has thrown at her, her supporters have parried. The personal attacks they have indulged in usually work against average Democrats. They have not worked against her. Alison is not your average Democrat. 
