--- title: Alison Lundergan Grimes Goes Skeet Shooting In New Ad description: "I'm not Barack Obama," says gun-toting senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes, before lecturing Republican opponent on how to hold a firearm canonical: https://time.com/3378380/alison-lundergan-grimes-skeet-shooting-mitch-mcconnell/ author: Alex Rogers article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-15T15:40:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:11:04.299Z article:section: Politics og:title: Alison Lundergan Grimes Goes Skeet Shooting In New Ad og:description: "I'm not Barack Obama," says gun-toting senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes, before lecturing Republican opponent on how to hold a firearm og:url: https://time.com/3378380/alison-lundergan-grimes-skeet-shooting-mitch-mcconnell/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fa741442da97805/6986a34c13c79f66aa193d8e/kentucky-democrat-obama.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: kentucky-democrat-obama og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alison Lundergan Grimes Goes Skeet Shooting In New Ad twitter:description: "I'm not Barack Obama," says gun-toting senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes, before lecturing Republican opponent on how to hold a firearm twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fa741442da97805/6986a34c13c79f66aa193d8e/kentucky-democrat-obama.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kentucky Democrat Takes Shots at Mitch McConnell and Obama in New Ad by [Alex Rogers](/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Sep 15, 2014 3:40 PM CUT  by [Alex Rogers](/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Sep 15, 2014 3:40 PM CUT Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes shows off her skeet shooting skills in a new ad distancing herself from President Barack Obama. “I’m not Barack Obama,” says Grimes, decked out with earplugs, a shooting vest and yellow tinted glasses, and holding a semi-automatic Remington rifle. “I disagree with him on guns, coal and the EPA.” Grimes also blasts her National Rifle Association-approved opponent, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, for awkwardly holding a gun earlier this year at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “And Mitch, that’s not how you hold a gun,” says Grimes. Her campaign confirmed that the firearm used in the ad is owned by the Democrat. The ad follows a tradition popularized by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who famously shot a hole through cap-and-trade legislation in a 2010 campaign ad. Republicans have also picked up on gun imagery this year. Alaska Republican Senate candidate Dan Sullivan shot a television in protest of special interest advertising and Iowa’s Joni Ernst shot a target in protest of Obamacare. McConnell is up by 5 points in the race, according to polling data compiled by [Real Clear Politics](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2014/senate/ky/kentucky%5Fsenate%5Fmcconnell%5Fvs%5Fgrimes-3485.html "undefined"). **Update at 12:05 p.m. on September 16** The McConnell campaign responds with a new ad. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3378380/alison-lundergan-grimes-skeet-shooting-mitch-mcconnell/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3378380/alison-lundergan-grimes-skeet-shooting-mitch-mcconnell/"},"headline":"Kentucky Democrat Takes Shots at Mitch McConnell and Obama in New Ad","datePublished":"2014-09-15T15:40:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:11:04.299Z","description":"\"I'm not Barack Obama,\" says gun-toting senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes, before lecturing Republican opponent on how to hold a firearm","url":"https://time.com/3378380/alison-lundergan-grimes-skeet-shooting-mitch-mcconnell/","keywords":["2014 elections","Congress","Advertising","Mitch McConnell","Alison Lundergan Grimes","Kentucky"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fa741442da97805/6986a34c13c79f66aa193d8e/kentucky-democrat-obama.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Rogers","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fa741442da97805/6986a34c13c79f66aa193d8e/kentucky-democrat-obama.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"kentucky-democrat-obama","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2014-elections/","name":"2014 elections"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3378380/alison-lundergan-grimes-skeet-shooting-mitch-mcconnell/","name":"Kentucky Democrat Takes Shots at Mitch McConnell and Obama in New Ad"}}]}] ```