Alison Lundergan-Grimes, the Kentucky Secretary of State who is challenging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for his Senate seat (which he has held for 30 years), had some red meat for the raucous Republican crowd at the annual Fancy Farm Picnic. (My favorite of her zingers: "If Mitch McConnell were a TV show, he'd be Mad Men -– treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968, and ending this season."
In the 2010 census, it was determined that Fancy Farm, Kentucky, had a population of 458. But since 1880, once a year -- and particularly in election years -- this tiny community has some political clout, as it hosts a crowd of up to 15,000 people for the annual Fancy Farm Picnic. Ever since the 1930s, the Fancy Farm Picnic has been traditionally a venue for Kentucky politicians to show up and make political speeches. It's pretty much required that candidates for political office in Kentucky show up at Fancy Farm -- when Senator Jim Bunning didn't, in 2007, he took a lot of political heat for it.
Watch Lundergan-Grimes vs. McConnell, 2014:
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