Senator Mitch McConnell’s approval rating is good and he’s beating Bruce Lunsford by double digits in recent polling.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, only the second Kentuckian in history to serve as his party’s leader in the U.S. Senate, released a memo today from pollster Jan van Lohuizen to the McConnell campaign showing a double digit lead for the Senate Leader over Democrat nominee Bruce Lunsford. A copy of the memo is attached.

The survey of 600 likely voters conducted May 21st and 22nd by Voter / Consumer Research shows Senator McConnell in a very strong position for reelection. The margin of error is +/- 4%. According to the survey’s findings:

57% of those surveyed approve of the job Senator McConnell is doing while 30% disapprove.

Senator McConnell leads Bruce Lunsford 50% to 39%.

Lunsford’s numbers are weak in spite of the fact that he spent more than $2 million to win the primary. Only 34% have a positive impression of him while 20% have a negative impression.

Only 59% of those who supported Greg Fischer in the primary plan to support Lunsford in the general election, while a quarter (25.3%) of Fischer supporters say they will support Senator McConnell in November.

It is also noteworthy that more than 81,000 Democrats who voted in the Presidential primary in Kentucky on May 20th could not find a candidate they could support in the Senate primary and did not vote in that contest.

McConnell campaign representative Justin Brasell said, “This is an indicator of what we can expect for the next five months. National Journal refuses to print Rasmussen polls, yet Democrat leaders will trumpet bogus polls like this one in a futile effort to create a false sense of momentum for the hand-picked candidate of New York Senator Chuck Schumer and the DSCC.”

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