Posted on 05/13/2015 5:30:54 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
[Kentucky] - Just seven days from the May 19 primary, state Republicans are split in their support among gubernatorial contenders.
Merely 3 percentage points separates the top candidate from third place in the race, according to the latest Bluegrass Poll conducted by SurveyUSA for the Lexington Herald-Leader, Louisville Courier Journal, WKYT-TV and WHAS-TV.
Louisville investment manager Matt Bevin leads the field with 27 percent, Agriculture Commissioner James Comer has 26 percent and former Louisville Metro Councilman Hal Heiner has 25 percent in the poll. Former state Supreme Court Justice Will T. Scott is polling at 8 percent.
The poll, conducted from May 5-10 of 517 Republicans, has a margin of error of 4.4 percent, placing the top three within the margin of error.
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Among the Republicans Comer trails by the slimmest margin, 6 points, in the hypothetical matchup. From The Courier-Journal:
The other candidates all trail Conway by double-digit margins: Heiner lags by 12 percentage points, Bevin by 11, while Scott is 16 points back. That portion of the poll tested the opinions of 1,677 likely voters in the general election and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points
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Kind of shows you what people think of judges.
If I could vote in KY, I would be voting for Matt Bevin.
If Bevin gets the nomination McConnell is going flat out to get Conway elected.
Bevin has my vote and F McConnell with an ungreased baseball bat. And no, I did not vote for Harry’s Bitch.
I would vote for Bevin too just to spite McC.
I’m not sure about that, because McConnell wants to take control of the House of Representatives and weakening the Democrats by having them lose the coveted governorship is a roadblock. He might help beat Conway in the background via superpac or something similar without directly assisting Bevin who he clearly does not like personally, as a means to an end. I can see that happening - he’s a strategist first and foremost. Fine with me if it gets Bevin elected.
In any event, Bevin is running a much better campaign this time around. I believe it is a very strong possibility Bevin will be the nominee. He has cut through the middle. If he continues this trend into the general he will be a viable candidate with or without McConnell’s help, but he needs to start running ads immediately after the primary to define himself before Conway has a chance to do so - I hope that he realizes that if he wins the nomination.
What’s Scott’s position on rooster rooting?
Looks interesting eh?
I don't know, call or email him and ask him.
Too interesting I’d say. There’s a candidate that has won statewide (Comer) and should the consensus nominee.
Oh but everyone that doesn’t like the eeeeeeeevil McConnell is rooting for the Paulbot/cockfight enthusiast/fake MIT attendee that ran against him in the primary (who likely would have been handed his A in the general). And some jive turkey ex City Councilman is running too. And a 4th guy.
Lame. Kentucky elects a Republican Governor about as often as a panda gives birth, I hope this golden opportunity isn’t blown.
Never think for a second that a Republican will win the KY governorship: they just virtually never do.
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