Kentucky Senate Race Close?

[SeanOhio]

www.electoral-vote.com

This site says that the incumbent Repub senator is having a mental collapse and the Democratic challenger is now tied with him. What's up?

[rpannier]

1. Bunning has been acting strange

He showed a picture of an expensive estate claiming it belonged to his opponent -- it didn't.
He insisted on a non-live debate after agreeing to it.
He used a teleprompter for opening and closing statements.
People are beginning to think he has alzheimers.

[WoodrowFan]

2. he's been acting odd, making some suspect he's going senile

He only agreed to one debate, appeared in it via a video linkup from DC, then used a teleprompter. He also said his opponent looked like one of Saddam's sons..

[KharmaTrain]

3. C'mon Dr. Dan!!!

Bunning has been acting strange, even by GOOP standards. He recently debated his opponent via satellite and using a teleprompter to give his answers. Rumors are that he's suffering from the onset of Altzheimers.

The race was a run-away for Bunning, but now is dead even and Dr. Dan is on the move. Definitely well worth sending a couple of bucks of you can so we can grab a seat here...plus Dan is a great candidate.

Reading a couple of blogs the past few days, I'm feeling good about getting a Senate majority. This race is a pleasant surprise.

[WoodrowFan]

4. article from Salon

Here's an article on Salon about it.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/12/bunning_kentucky/index.html

Oct. 12, 2004 | It's no secret in Kentucky that Sen. Jim Bunning, a Republican who was expected to coast to reelection on Nov. 2, has been acting strange. Over the past few months, Bunning has angrily pushed away reporters, exchanged testy words with a questioner at a Rotary Club and stuck to brief, heavily scripted remarks at campaign events, delivered in a halting monotone. The former major league baseball star now travels the Bluegrass State with a special police escort, at taxpayer expense. His explanation? Al-Qaida may be out to get him.

More substantively, the incumbent would agree to only one debate with his Democratic challenger, state Sen. Daniel Mongiardo. And the rules Bunning negotiated were bizarrely rigid: The encounter could not be live; the taping has to occur in the afternoon, not the evening; no audience could be present in the studio; and, under threat of legal action, Mongiardo could not use any sound clips or video of Bunning's debate performance in campaign advertisements.


This apparent fear of the spontaneous has spurred rumors in Kentucky that Bunning, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is suffering from some sort of dementia, perhaps Alzheimer's. Bunning has declined to release his medical records. But until now, there was nothing hard to suggest that the one-term Republican senator was anything but a crotchety, occasionally confused, or arrogant old man.