Posted on 04/13/2010 12:37:13 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Rand Paul, son of Texas Rep. Ron Paul and a favorite of the Tea Party movement, has built a big lead over Secretary of State Trey Grayson in the race for the GOP Senate nomination in Kentucky, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted April 9-11.
The race has been depicted as a test of the movement's influence, pitting a candidate trying to capitalize on the voter anger it reflects against an establishment Republican who has won re-election to his position three times. Grayson has fought back with TV ads honing in on Paul's "strange ideas," such as saying "Paul even wonders whether 9/11 was our fault."
Paul is ahead of Grayson by 45 percent to 30 percent with 6 percent for three other candidates and 19 percent undecided.
Conservatives favor Paul by 51 percent to 29 percent with 16 percent undecided. Those who attend religious services regularly or occasionally favor Paul by double-digit margins. Gun owners back Paul 48 percent to 22 percent with 22 percent undecided. There is an income gap between Paul and Grayson supporters: Paul leads among Kentuckians earning less than $50,000 a year by 49 percent to 22 percent with 21 percent undecided, but his margin is much smaller (42 percent to 38 percent) among those earning over $50,000.
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In other words, you want a "movement conservative."
Ugh, that plus the recent revelations about his being funded by the big banks has tipped me completely away from Trey Grayson to Paul. Not particularly happy about it, but between the two, Rand Paul is appearing to be far and away the better of the two.
Not that it matters too much, of course, I don’t like in KY.
LIVE in KY, I should say.
And I’m thrilled with it...
I like Rand Paul, he’s light years better than the (I can buy the seat for myself, establishment RINO).
This guy isn’t perfect, but I think he’s considerably better than the other guy. It’d be nice to have one guy in the Senate who actually believes in reducing the size of government.
Paul’s lunatics rig, spam and distort every polls they can get their resin stained fingers on.
Your people did themselves proud in New Orleans during Pence’s speech when he mentioned Israel, didn’t they? Are y’all being paid by Soros or Ahmadinejad?
And this is worse than Obama how?
Are you out of your mind?
They aren’t libertarians. They are Buchananites squared. The Pauls like to grandstand on fiscal issues but they don’t do anything about it.
Their defenders on FR are not libertarians, they’re Bircher cranks and Pat-sies.
Their real interest is foreign policy. Namely, any foreign policy that helps Israel. Which they don’t want any part of.
They also have the “Everything bad has happened in the world because America has flapped its wings” school of international theory.
Yep. They know what the Pauls look like behind the mask and they like it.
Palin really should have stayed out of this one, she gave Rand Paul some undeserved legitimacy based only on his rhetoric.
His right arm will do a Dr. Strangelove on us before too long. Count on it.
I don't trust Paul but Kentuckians are weary of the political class in Washington, which Grayson seems to represent.
Well, we did but Johnson dropped out because there apparently was a lack of support. I liked what he had to say. He spoke plainly, intelligently and conservatively.
The people pimping the Pauls here ARE Stormfront.
I can’t believe Palin got behind this guy. She must have a thing for Manchurian Republicans.
I must say that this has not been my experience.
It’s early yet.
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