In Ky:Clooney Has Big Lead in Rival Camp’s Polls, C0 Salazar 43% - Shaffer 32%

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[KQQL]

CO: Ken Salazar 43% Bob Schaffer 32% ---------------------

KY 4 Democrat Ken Salazar leads republican Bob Schaffer 43-32 in the colorado senate race in a poll mentioned later in the article) ---------------------

Clooney received 46 percent to Davis’ 31 percent in a Cooper & Secrest Associates survey of 504 likely general election voters done for the Democrat’s campaign.

The poll was in the field Feb. 17-19 and had a 4.4 percent margin of error. The campaign just released the results this week.

In a Tarrance Group poll done for Davis, Clooney led 52 percent to 36 percent.

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[KQQL]

Anti Iraq War Nick Clonney up in the polls in a conservative KY district ..what gives??

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[KQQL]

IF Clonney wins in Ky4 (Very Conservative District)..it will be really bad day for the GOP in 04.

He was against the IraqWAR...his name ID is probably helpng him @ this time.

[Kuksool]

These races must be due to name ID right now.

[Kuksool]

The 2004 Senate races are going to be incredibly expensive with the open races in NC, SC, GA, FL, IL, OK, CO, and possibly PA. I have never seen so many open Senate seats in an election cycle. I suspect their will be a lot coattails from either Bush or Kerry.

[MasonGal]

My husband grew up in that district and my in-laws still live there. Clooneys were raised in that neck of the woods - and of course - Nick Clooney was a celebrity in his own right - in the Cincy area. He was a news anchor, variety show host in the 60's or early 70's, etc.

Yes - I do fear that he will win this election easily.

George was in the Louisville area (near where I live) over this past weekend raising money for his dad's campaign. I think I recall reading that it was about $200,000.

My brother knew George "way back when" - when they were about 8 years old - and in the same Cub Scout Den. My brother said that he remembers George being a jerk back then, too. :))

[Kuksool]

With so many open Senate races this election cycle, I wonder if the "true conservative" malcontents who say "Bush should lose because divided gov't is good" will help elect more Republicans to Congress?

[HateBill]

Clooney may be ahead because he is not involved in a primary race. Davis, I think, has 2 primary rivals and does not have the nomination yet.

[Kuksool]

If the RATS hold the Ky-04, Ky-06, and knock off Anne Northup in the Ky-03, it shall be a huge comback for the RATS after losing the Governorship in 2003. I hope it doesn't happen. Given the lack of a 1st tier RAT opponent for Sen. Jim Bunning, I hope he can provide enough coattails for GOP canddiates to win the Ky-06, Ky-03, and especially the Ky-04. Bunning won 70% of the Ky-04 vote in his 1998 Senate run.

[BillyBoy]

>> IF Clonney wins in Ky4 (Very Conservative District)..it will be really bad day for the GOP in 04.
He was against the IraqWAR...his name ID is probably helpng him @ this time. <<

Don't forget that popular "conservative" RAT incumbant Ken Lucas endorsed LOONEY and is out on the stump campaigning for him.

[KQQL]

Liniger considers Senate run
By Lynn Bartels and Jim Tankersley, Rocky Mountain News
March 24, 2004

Entrepreneur Dave Liniger, founder of an international real estate firm and owner of his own golf course, is considering running for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.

"I've had some conversations about it, and I am talking with my family," Liniger said today. "I was hoping to keep this quiet until next week."

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/election/article/0,1299,DRMN_36_2754997,00.html

19 posted on 03/24/2004 7:29:46 PM PST by KQQL (@)

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

The 2004 Senate races are going to be incredibly expensive with the open races in NC, SC, GA, FL, IL, OK, CO, and possibly PA. I have never seen so many open Senate seats in an election cycle.

You should have seen 1996. I wasn't studying politics at the time, but man, that had a lot of open seats: Oregon, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas (both seats because of Bob Dole's resignation), Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Illinois, Rhode Island, and Maine. 13 open seats in all. If Toomey wins the primary, we could end up with 9 this cycle.

[NYC Republican]

I was reading about this race in the paper... Apparently, plenty of women are going ga-ga over George Clooney, saying he's cute, so they want to vote for his father. How disgusting... DOLTS! DIMWITS!!

[JohnnyZ]

Oregon, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas (both seats because of Bob Dole's resignation), Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Illinois, Rhode Island, and Maine.

Those were some important races. Thank goodness we have Gordon Smith, Sam Brownback, Jeff Sessions, and Wayne Allard! Come to think of it, that was pretty good GOP performance, even getting the most legal votes in Loosiana, winning the Arkansas seat for a term, and even getting Susan Collins when the Democrats nominated Joe Brennan for the umpteenth time (ha ha ha!)

[wardaddy]

Not that we can turn back the clock but without the women's vote, we would never have had the modern liberalism that has plagued us since the first half of the 20th century and spawned so much other destructive garbage.

Still, I do love women. One could also argue that if we had only limited the vote to property owners as once was etc.

I actually like the notion of only income, property, military personnel or F&E taxpayers voting come to think of it.....that too would kill liberalism.

[KQQL]

Nick, 69,
was against the war in Iraq and
supports some gun-control measures,

but, Crowley says, "he is hardly the flaming, Ted Kennedy type."

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/21655.htm

[nkycincinnatikid]

Pat Crowley is the Ky Democratic party press agent in the Republican north. And he writes for the traditionally Republican of the two local dailies. Clooney will be given all the help the local press can provide in disquising his myopic liberalism. In addition Nick Clooney is a fine , decent, appealing, instantly recognised and liked local gentleman. If this were not also a presidential election year , I believe he would likely win. But Bush is extremely popular in this district and I really hope and believe that his coat tails will see the Republican nominee through. Boone County is key because it provides truly landslide margins to the Pubies and Davis is from Boone county, Clooney is a rural squire without a significant geographical/ population home base. I think the COC will be for Davis this time, and I blame their defection to Lucas in 96 for the interuption of 40 years of Republican representation in the 4th. I feel pretty good about the prospects of defeating Clooney.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"Yes - I do fear that [Clooney] will win this election easily."

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You are being overly pessimistic. The 4th district gave President Bush 61.2% of the vote in 2000 (it was his second best district in KY), and will probably give him close to 65% in 2004 running against Kerry instead of Gore. And Ken Lucas, a popular incumbent Democrat who is more conservative than most Republicans in the House (and nearly switched to the GOP last year), beat the underfunded Davis by only 51.1% to 47.5% in 2002. If Davis is the GOP nominee, he will have a lot more money this time around, and evryone will know that Clooney is a liberal who will oppose the Bush agenda. I think Davis will end up beating Clooney rather easily; right now, I'd predict a 55%-43% victory.

Regarding the Democrat poll showing Clooney ahead, it would be interesting to find out if the people polled were informed to which party each of Clooney and Davis belonged.