KY-Sen: Lunsford Closing In

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http://swingstateproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3766

Garin Hart Yang (10/26-27, likely voters, 10/6-7 in parens):

Bruce Lunsford (D): 45 (45)
Mitch McConnell (R-inc): 47 (48)
(MoE: ±4.5%)
Here we are, a few days before the election, and the Minority Leader of the United States Senate is ahead by only two points and under the 50% threshold. That's hardly a position of strength for the mighty McConnell. The polling memo, which is available below the fold, also notes that the sample may be underestimating African-American turnout by a significant margin -- enough to perhaps give Lunsford an extra couple of points.

On another note, Lunsford has a pair of new ads out -- one featuring excerpts from a stump speech from the Bubba Queen herself, Hillary Clinton (what an extraordinary sign of the times), and the other featuring a famous pack of bloodhounds.