Kentucky: Conway Raises $300,000 in Internet Fundraiser

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Kentucky: Conway Raises $300,000 in Internet Fundraiser

By CQ-Roll Call Staff | September 8, 2010 10:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)


Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway (D) reported raising more than $300,000 from his first web-based fundraiser in his campaign to win the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.).

Meanwhile, GOP candidate Rand Paul appealed to his supporters to help him raise more than $350,000 in two weeks for his fall television ad campaign. "I hate to ask, but I urgently need your help," Paul told supporters via email and social media.

Conway's original goal for Tuesday's Internet fundraiser was $260,000, and he raised about $310,000, his campaign disclosed Wednesday.

Paul, an ohpthalmologist and the son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), reported having $361,000 in the bank at the end of June. Conway had $703,000 on hand, and as of the end of June had loaned his campaign $525,000.

A CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corp. survey of registered Kentucky voters released Wednesday showed a tie between the two candidates at 46 percent. The poll of 869 registered voters in Kentucky was conducted Sept. 2-7, with a margin of error of 3.5 points.

The survey follows a SurveyUSA poll released over the weekend that showed Paul ahead 55 percent to 40 percent. Democrats pushed back on those numbers by publicizing a poll done by Democratic pollster John Anzalone which showed the race a statistical dead heat, with Paul at 48 percent to Conway's 45 percent.

[saltpoint]

1. Go, Jack.

I'd sure love the narrative where we no longer have Jim Bunning in the Senate and we get Jack Conway to replace him.

Recommended.

[era veteran]

2. I feel Kentuckians are seeing Rand as a big mistake

The drug thing was the kicker. The carpetbagging dullard Paul is ignorant of the State.( Rec!)

[EnlightenedOne]

3. I don't know, I'm pretty worried

I hope to God Kentucky doesn't elect him.

[JNelson6563]

4. Would love to see us take this race!

That would be awesome. Glad to see he raised so much!

Julie