Mitch McConnell's Big Mitch Problem  The Senate Republican
leader just won his primary. But his biggest obstacle in the
general won't be his Democratic opponent.  | Tue May 20, 2014
6:14 PM EDT  It is odd that in a year widely cited by political
handicappers as favorable for Republicans, one of the most
senior elected GOP officials in Washington—Mitch McConnell, the
minority leader of the Senate—is perhaps the most embattled
Republican incumbent up for reelection. Though McConnell easily
fended off a tea party challenge in his home state of Kentucky,
defeating businessman Matt Bevin in Tuesday's Republican primary
contest, the five-term senator will now face off against Alison
Lundergan Grimes, Kentucky's Democratic secretary of state, in a
race deemed to be one of the more competitive clashes of the
year. Yes, with Republicans riding high—and giddy at the
prospect of taking the Senate—their main man in the Senate is
fighting for his political life. Why is this? The answer may be
simple: He's not that likable