U.S. News & World Report noted yesterday that polling numbers are improving for some GOP Senators.  The excerpt below mentions Senator McConnell who released polling data yesterday that put his job approval rating at 59%.

In Kentucky, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell has seen his positive ratings reach above 50 percent in two recent polls, dampening the likelihood that he will face any major opposition next year funded by the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee. A TargetPoint poll from mid-August, released today, pegs McConnell's job approval rating at 53 percent and his disapproval rating at 30 percent. A recent poll had put his approval rating at 47 percent. A Voter/Consumer Research poll, meanwhile, taken in early August and provided to U.S. News today, put his approval rating at 59 percent, with 35 percent disapproving.