CNN calling Rand Paul (R) in Kentucky Republican primary.

[pinto]

Source: CNN, via televised announcement.

A Breaking News note on CNN.

No link yet.

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A breaking news alert on CNN.

[MIprogressive1]

1. I think thats good for us? no?

[pinto]

3. Not well versed enough on KY state politics to really say, but I would think so.

Turnout in these things are often a slim portion of eventual statewide turnouts in the general.

:shrug:

[Bluebear]

7. If you're into Teabagger voter intimidation

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/battlegrounds/kentucky-primary-grayson-accus.html

[Tempest]

17. FiveThirtyEight seems to think so

They tweeted that if Paul won, the seat would go blue.

[MIprogressive1]

20. good deal!

[Dappleganger]

21. Yes, and check out how many Democrats showed up to vote.

[cindyperry2009]

29. that's what important

for conway and mongiardo have more votes each than all the repuke votes combined.

[maddogesq]

33. Rachel nailed this last night.

She said time and time again, to watch the voter turnouts. That was the crystal ball, IMHO. People still want the change O promised, and they are telling O just that tonght. If I was sitting in the West Wing with the gang, I'd be telling my troops just that.

[No Elephants]

44. Good,

[ck4829]

2. Voter intimidation does work!

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/battlegrounds/kentucky-primary-grayson-accus.html
http://www.wbko.com/news/headlines/94208219.html?ref=219

[FrenchieCat]

4. You think they will report who of the Democrats won that primary in KY?

or will it even be worth mentioning?
Looks like plenty of Dems have shown up to vote
when one compares the numbers anyways.


U.S. Senate - GOP Primary
May 18, 2010 - 07:53PM ET
Kentucky - 1342 of 3575 Precincts Reporting - 38%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Paul , Rand GOP 76,904 59%
Grayson , Trey GOP 47,475 36%
Johnson , Bill GOP 2,189 2%
Stephenson , John GOP 2,032 2%
Martin , Gurley GOP 911 1%
Scribner , Jon GOP 873 1%



U.S. Senate - Dem Primary
May 18, 2010 - 07:53PM ET
Kentucky - 1341 of 3575 Precincts Reporting - 38%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Conway , Jack Dem 99,529 50%
Mongiardo , Daniel Dem 73,963 38%
Price , Darlene Dem 10,327 5%
Sweeney , Maurice Dem 7,935 4%
Buckmaster , James Dem 5,362 3%


http://www.courier-journal.com/

[pinto]

6. Still a close race, according to early returns.

:hi:

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. MSNBC calling it now as well. Ugh.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37215389

[liberation]

8. "Rand" Paul? WTF? Sounds like the unholy love child of Ayn and Ron...

two of the libertarian apocalypse horse riders...

[krabigirl]

10. His name is actually Randal, but still, lol.

[LeftyMom]

14. Ron's kid. I'd be shocked if he's not named after Ayn Rand,

but there may be a cover story about an old family name or something, since being a Randroid isn't exactly something one fesses up to in polite company.

[Ter]

40. He's not

His name is Randal. His wife started calling him "Rand" and the name stuck.

[BumRushDaShow]

49. But Fineman claimed he was

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2010/05/18/rand-paul-wins-kentucky-sen-gop-primary-now-democrats-will-want-to-make-him-the-issue.aspx">http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2010/05/18/rand-paul-wins-kentucky-sen-gop-primary-now-democrats-will-want-to-make-him-the-issue.aspx

:rofl:

[erpowers]

9. Chances of a Democrat Winning

What are the chances of a Democrat winning in the Kentucky general election?

[recoveringdittohed]

12. Depends on whose polling you believe

According to 538.com Democratic chance of winning in Kentucky 17%.

According to an April 12 Survey USA poll Ky Senate 44% Republican 41% Democratic with 15% undecided

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=1976231a-b3ad-4309-aa16-197b8d3c072d

[Tempest]

18. 538 tweeted that if Paul won, the seat could go blue

The tweet was reposted over at HuffingtonPost.

[Flipper999]

19. Great

so chances are that the Teabaggers are going to get one of their own elected.

He'll just be one vote, but he'll serve as inspiration for the idiot army.

:puke:

[SocialistLez]

25. One more obstructionist vote for the GOP. NT

[Kablooie]

23. I doubt that a Dem could win there even against a damned fool like Rand.

He says things people want to hear. Who cares if he's got any sense or not.

[Roland99]

28. Mongiardo narrowly lost to Bunning in the last election.

Bunning pulled out the worst and ran ads saying Mongiardo looked like Saddam Hussein.


sickening.

[No Elephants]

47. May is way too early to give up on November. Yeayyyy, 50 State Strategy.

[Ed Barrow]

11. Conway is ahead of Mongiardo

48 percent for Conway and 40 percent for Mongiardo with 63 percent of precincts reporting, per the Louisville Courier-Journal.


http://www.courier-journal.com/

[Ter]

39. Who's more liberal?

n/t

[political_Dem]

13. Yucky. The same fruit from a poisined tree. The Teadouchebaggery continues.

[dipsydoodle]

15. Tea Party's Paul wins Republican primary in Kentucky - BBC

Tea Party's Rand Paul has defeated Republican establishment favourite Trey Grayson in the GOP Senate primary poll in Kentucky, early results show.

With 31% of precincts reporting, Mr Paul had 59% of the vote to Mr Greyson's 37%.

Voters in several other US states are also deciding on party candidates for November's mid-term elections.

The outcome of these primary ballots will be seen as a key indicator of the volatile political mood in America.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8688383.stm

[Kablooie]

16. His energy policy is for the government to get out of the way and let businesses work it out.

Which means goodbye alternatives, hello oily snake salesmen.

[lunasun]

31. BP and Massey Coal&Energy shows that policy could really work for us!

[terrapinwelcher]

35. Huh?

Wasn't Interior and MMS "watching" over BP? So much for government oversight.

[Kablooie]

42. Yeah, they haven't been doing their job but the teabagger idea is to eliminate it altogether.

[No Elephants]

45. Maybe failure of govt agencies to do their jobs is related to a desire to eliminate them.

[Kablooie]

48. Perhaps so. No reason to support a government that doesn't govern.

Though that conclusion just makes the problem worse.
They better solution is to make the government govern again.

[terrapinwelcher]

50. But The Point is This

Industry self-regulation and federal oversight are both proven failures. Why would we give the feds another chance but not the oil industry? think it through. The two both got the exact same results. Where I come from, we grade on results and not supposed good intentions.

[pettypace]

22. Obama '08

As Josh Howard so uneloquently put it.

[pjt7]

24. Let's see how Rand Paul does

I have hope.

[florida08]

26. some encouragement

if you look at the numbers in the turnout thus far..democratic turnout was almost 2-1.

[onager]

27. A big middle finger to Mitch McConnell, ain't it?

Maybe somebody with knowledge of Kentucky politics can tell us more about this.

I was just reading some news reports on this election.

A couple of sites mentioned that McConnell personally removed Jim Bunning from this race. Mitch The Bitch thought Bunning couldn't win, so he recruited Trey Grayson as the Great White Conservative Hope.

That didn't work out too well.

:rofl:

Usual Irrelevant Trivia: I'm a skeptic who laughs at the idea of aliens living among us. But Mitch McConnell almost convinces me otherwise. Ever take a close look at his face? It's weirdly misproportioned or something. He always reminds me of the Lizard People from the mini-series V, caught in mid-transformation between their human and alien states.

[Pushed To The Left]

30. Is he as anti-war as his father? If he is, that's bad news for the RW hawks. They'll have nobody to

vote for!

[lunasun]

32. He opposes the war in Iraq &supports term limits for politicians

Don't know what some of those war righties will do now
!

[terrapinwelcher]

36. Let's Not Get Too Excited

It's not like we've done a damn thing to stop the nonsensical wars while controlling the House, the Senate and the WH.

[murdoch]

41. Yes he is against the war, unlike many Democrats

I am tired of hearing from these interventionist Democrats, especially Biden, and Hillary, and with respect to Honduras and Afghanistan and Palestine, Obama.

If I had to vote for a candidate, and one was a Democrat hawk, and the other a Tea Party anti-interventionist, I would vote for the latter in a heartbeat.

[ProudDad]

51. You mean in spite of the fact that this idiot Rand

...doesn't believe in global warming/climate change...

and so, he's like his stupid father -- against THIS particular war (Iraq, is he against Afghanistan?) because it's "unsuccessful" but VERY happy with waging wars that make "economic sense"...

...But he's willing to let the Earth become uninhabitable for large air-breathing mammals in favor of unbridled "free market fundamentalism" (unlimited corporate profits)...

A pox on both their corporate houses...

And, as usual, the tea-baggers vote against their own interests -- it's a habit with them...

[JCMach1]

34. Let's here it for teh Krazy!

[Blue_Tires]

37. I imagine the coal/drilling/mining corporations are giving blank check to his campaign

[Ter]

38. He's anti-Patriot Act

How many Republicans oppose that one, not to mention the war in Iraq? For that matter, how many Democrats do?

[DCBob]

43. Rand puts this seat in play...

Should be very interesting campaign.

[No Elephants]

46. IMO, this gives a Democrat a better chance. If your Senator were Bunning and your alternative

were the Teabaggers' choice, wouldn't you vote Democratic? Even if you were a sane Republican?


Speaking of Bunning, I wonder how many in that state are currently unemployed.


Go, Dems!

[ProudDad]

52. You'ld better hope this fascist doesn't get elected!!! (n/t)