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For over a month now, Republican Rand Paul has managed to maintain a modest lead over Democrat Jack Conway in the Kentucky open Senate race, and with only a week left until the election, signs point to a Paul victory. PPP is out with a new poll showing Paul with a 13 point lead.
PPP (PDF) (10/21-24)
Rand Paul (R) 53
Jack Conway (D) 40
Undecided 7
While this is one of the largest leads ever for Paul in public polling, all recent pollsters have had him in the lead. For example, a recent Mason-Dixon poll (PDF) had Paul up by five points.
The PPP poll found President Obama garnered only a 34 percent approval rating in the state. In this political environment, it is very difficult for any Democrat to win in a place where their president is so unpopular.
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Jon, did you see this:
“Youth unlikely to ‘rock US vote’”
I hope we haven’t seen the last of Jack Conway.
He has that Southern-boy magnetism that reminds me of the charisma of a governor of another small red southern state, back in the last century.
We’ll see.
Yeah, he’s young enough he has many election cycles ahead of him. Hope he pulls it out but he is running in the worst year for Democrats since 1994.