From Yahoo News: How Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao turned a Kentucky town into their personal swamp
Thanks to Jeff Wiggins for sending us this story.
By Alexander Nazaryan.
WASHINGTON — The small western Kentucky town of Paducah loves Mitch McConnell. Even if progressives loathe McConnell for his ruthless effectiveness as master of the Senate, and even if plenty of his fellow Kentuckians disapprove of his performance, he can always find a warm embrace here on the banks of the Ohio River.
McConnell is not a native son of Paducah; he was born in Alabama and moved as a child to Louisville, the state’s biggest city. But he might as well call it home, for while Louisville is one of Kentucky’s few Democratic redoubts, Paducah is as red as blood. When McConnell was running for reelection in 2014, Paducah voted for him over his Democratic opponent, Alison Lundergan Grimes, at twice the rate of the rest of the state.