The newest Survey USA poll out today for Kentucky's Senate seat has both Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo and Rand Paul enjoying comfortable double digit leads over respective primary opponents AG Jack Conway and State Speaker Trey Grayson.
Paul is up 42-27% over Grayson, while Mongiardo is up an even larger 45-27%. Both polls have 19% undecided however, so it's still not a done deal for either man.
The most interesting part is the general matchup. It has the Republican only up 43-42%. In a year where the GOP supposedly rules and the Dems are doomed in a red state, this one's neck and neck. Older Kentuckians prefer the Democrat, but those 35-49 prefer the Republican slightly. Young voters are evenly split on this one, which is surprising.
However, it's pretty damn obvious at this point that Kentucky Republicans are deadly serious about putting up Rand Paul in November, but Dems are even more serious it seems about Lt. Dan being the man. Here in Boone and Kenton counties I've seen a lot of Mongiardo and Paul signs up, but not Grayson or Conway.
Mongiardo's opposition research team better be on the ball. Paul's will be, and Lt. Dan has quite a few imperfections. On the other hand, it won't take much to convince folks that Paul's a nutbar. We'll see how this rolls out. The Dems are doing a lot better than I thought they would be doing at this point.
Bunning's retirement means incumbency and voting records in Congress on HCR and the stimulus won't factor in at all. If the bum's already being thrown out, who will KY voters turn to in order to replace him?
Yes Bunning is such an ass, he followed legislation that was passed with overwhelmingly Democratic support that we will not add to the deficit. He stood by that and was portrayed as the lone nut job, like he didn't have any support <_<
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing what you can find out when you read for yourself, go to Google and read about it.
Oh, so only now that a Democrat is President and now that people's unemployment benefits are on the line do Republicans care about "paying for it."
ReplyDeleteThey sure didn't give a damn about who paid the trillions for Iraq and Afghanistan.
Again war is a bit different don't you think?
ReplyDeletePaying for the men and women over there, plus their supplies, weapons, bombs, etc. all generally add up to be a quite bit more than someones unemployment benefits, and also the deficit was no where near as bad. Also to state trillions is inaccurate.
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
Now the Republicans did spend wastefully I won't deny that, but the war would not be one of those wasteful expenditures.
And you also avoided the point completely that Bunning followed legislation that the Democrats had just enacted, going back 5 or more years to point a finger not only doesn't prove a point but also shows you have nothing to add but feel the need to run to Obama and the Democrats defense.