http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/09/05/rand-paul-leads-in-kentucky-polling/ Rand Paul, a tea party-backed Republican running for a U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky, is leading his Democratic rival Jack Conway by 15 points, according to a new poll by SurveyUSA. The poll, conducted for the Louisville Courier-Journal and WHAS-TV, http://www.courier-journal.com/arti...06/Complete-results-Kentucky-U-S-Senate-poll# puts Paul ahead of Conway, 55% to 40%. The two are vying to capture the seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, who is not running for re-election. The margin of error for the poll is 4.2 points, which was conducted between Aug. 30 and Sept. 1, is 4.2 points. Other polls taken in mid- and late-August put Paul ahead by between five and 10 percentage points, according to polling data compiled by realclearpolitics.com.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/05/ftn/main6837589.shtml Analysts: White House Panicking Over Elections Say Dems Are Distancing Themselves From Obama, Angry Over Economy, Health Care Fallout (CBS) With many polls indicating the Republicans may win back control of the House of Representatives (and possibly the Senate as well) in the upcoming mid-term elections, Jim VandeHei, the executive editor of Politico, told CBS' "Face the Nation" that the Obama administration is in a horrible position. "Does the White House understand this?" asked guest host Harry Smith. "Do you feel any sense of panic or concern" on the part of the administration? "They get it. There's panic. There's concern," VandeHei said. "The reality for this administration stinks, politically and practically, when it comes to the economy. You're not going to be able to change that 9.6-percent unemployment figure. You can't get anything from Congress in the next couple of months." CBS Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes said the Democrats are distancing themselves from President Obama. "Not only are they running away from President Obama, they're running away from being Democrats in some cases. In some races you actually see the Democratic candidates not really mentioning that they're a Democrat in their campaign ads," Cordes said.
I can't say that I'm too concerned by either one of those reports. A democrat trailing in Kentucky is not exactly shocking, and as for the white house being upset about the election, what difference does it make how they feel? If the report was about what the white house is going to do, then it might be of interest. barfo
Yeah, I'm a little confused by the point of this thread. Currently, both senators from Kentucky are Republicans. A R is retiring. And right now, a Republican (er...Tea Partier) is leading a democrat in a conservative state which currently has 2 R's? So the R's winning Kentucky doesn't exactly change the #'s in the senate any, because replacing an R with another R...doesn't do anything. It'd be like proving the democrats are fine by saying "Ron Wyden leads Oregon's senate race!"...when he's pretty much running unopposed and both seats in Oregon are D's.
Bullshit. Politico is not a conservative WWW site. No more conservative than the Washington Post, from which the founders of Politico came, or MSNBC where the founders are regular talking heads.
How quickly you forget your own posts. The plan against Rand Paul was to try to ridicule him and make the race one of personal destruction. You were quite pleased that the first polls showed Paul losing or the race about tied. Now it's 15 points he's up, and that is the story. In fact, the story is that the Democrats' only hope of winning elections is to make the race one of personal destruction, and here's a case where it's not working.
BTW I do remember my own posts, this one made in May. It's looking about +7 in the Senate and much more than +27 in the house.
A Republican being way up in Kentucky isn't a story. For a while, a few months ago, it seemed like Rand's craziness factor might actually endanger the seat for Republicans. That would have been a story, a story of self-inflicted personal destruction for the Republican party. The fact that, crazy candidate or not, Kentucky is still safe for Republicans isn't all that much of a story. Water is still wet...even crazy water.
The story is that the talking points were that the Tea Party backed candidates were so loony that democrats would beat them. Just like Brown won Teddy's seat because the democrats ran a shitty candidate. Apparently, Rand isn't _that_ shitty a candidate, eh?
He's probably not shitty at campaigning, like Coakley. Coakley was more like John McCain...terrible campaigner, came off as clueless. Rand is just a rightwing nutcase (not that nutcases must be rightwing, but he's one of them)...rightwing nuttery is probably not that much of a detriment in as red a state as Kentucky.
Was it? I ridiculed him, certainly, but I'm not part of the Conway campaign. Why wouldn't I be pleased about such polls? Yes, but it's a boring story. Hopefully after he gets elected he'll unleash some more crazy, and then we'll have an interesting story again. barfo
Mission Accomplished! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090305391_pf.html I'm waiting now for the "Washington Post is a conservative rag" bit.
Republican campaign ad should be made out of this one: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100906/D9I2DUV01.html Obama calling for more infrastructure spending
Not going there, but I think the story is a load of crap. A sevenfold increase in taxes? The only way that happens is if the numbers involved are very small. barfo
I suppose you didn't read the health care bill that was passed - that's the source of the tax increases.
Bullpucky. What health care reform related tax, exactly, went into immediate effect and would affect someone in the real estate business? barfo
McCain is up by 70 points over the Democratic candidate in the Arizona race!! The Republican's are killing the Democrats there, and it's all Obama's fault! Surely this is a sign American's are fed up with this Presidency and the actions of the Democrats!
http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf See page 275. The thing is a scam, remember? They're collecting, via taxes and other burdens on people, enough money over the first half of the term of the law to make the second half seem like it barely breaks even.
