Rand Paul holds 6-point lead over Jack Conway in U.S. Senate race

[JohnnyLib2]

www.courier-journal.com/article/20105300332




Within the margin of error, but........




x( :banghead:

[UndertheOcean]

1. WHAAAAAA !!!!!!

[Bluebear]

2. Not a surprise to me in the least

What we think are nutty backwards views are obviously embraced by a lot of people. This country is fracturing.

[napi21]

3. Give it time/ Rand sticks his foot in his mouth so often, I don't

think it's going to take long before those #'s are radically changed in favor of Conway. I honestly can't believe how many times Rand has screwed up! One time it was opposition to the equal rights ammendment, then it was Obama shouldn't have critices BP because accidents happen and his comments were Unamerican, and the most recent was if a baby is born here in the US to a foreign mother, they shouldn't be a US citizen....even though that's in the Constitution. I can hardly wait for him to open his mouth again! What new thing will we hear???

[silverback]

5. None of that's a huge problem for Republican voters in KY...

Liberals tend to expect others to react to these things like they do, in fact they tend to project their own mindset onto conservatives/libertarians and miss/waste a lot of opportunities as a result.

If it was a liberal making the argument Paul made about the CRA, I'd agree it was probably racially motivated. Coming from a libertarian I suspect it's precisely what he claims it is, an extreme respect for property rights, freedom of association/dissociation, and/or a mistrust of government force so deep no matter what good purpose a law is meant to serve the philosophical ramification/slippery slope argument trumps it...if the state has a legitimate power to force X then it could in future force Y.

The "anchor baby" thing is a pure win for Paul with people who might actually vote for him, the right is really worried about immigration,they'd amend the Constitution if they thought they could.

The BP thing is just stupid but it reflects his base's affinity for big oil, drill baby drill 'cause Cletus' pick 'm up is a thirsty beast.

He's probably finished as a contender for national office, but the national media attention isn't likely to impact his race in KY all that much. He could win, he might even benefit from all the negative attention he's getting from the left...we're that polarized these days.

[napi21]

6. You may be right, but I can't forget the reporter on Hardball saying "The people

from Ky don't like to be embarrassed, and if their candidate says something silly, they expect him to at least not comeoff sounding like a NUT1" I think that's likely to be true. We'll see in Novl I guess, but Paul is becomming crazier by the day. If he doesn't change his words & positions, he's not going to win!

[WCGreen]

4. Paul will win....

But the GOP will have to spend a lot of money that they didn't plan on speninding for s seat they weren't expecting to...

[kywildcat]

7. Don't count Jack Conway out yet.

I expect someone to make hay over his anchor baby comments-considering Paul mentioned the Commonwealth of Kentucky once in his acceptance speech-and he is viewed as a carpetbagger here in the commonwealth. His on logic can and probably should be turned on him-considering Conway is a native son of KY and Paul is not.
Also-not much has been heard from northern KY. We receive or media from Cincinnati, and Paul's comments and views do not play well here.

[JohnnyLib2]

9. Good to hear about No. KY.

My message to those out of state: send $$$ to the Conway campaign, one way or another.

Letting R-Paul become a senator is like reinforcing unwanted behavior from a child!

[Vinca]

8. When it comes to the dumbing down of America,

it looks like "Mission Accomplished" in Kentucky.

[JohnnyLib2]

10. Heyyyyyyyyy.

No fat lady singin' yet.