Poll: Rand Paul Easily Leads in Senate Race

The Washington Independent ^ | 2-24-2010 | David Weigel

[Christian_Capitalist]

Poll: Rand Paul Easily Leads in Senate Race
By David Weigel 2/24/10 11:05 AM

For some reason, Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul never gets called the "frontrunner" in that race. Secretary of State Trey Grayson, seen as the favorite of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), still receives that title. But it's another day and another poll -- this one from Magellan Strategies -- showing Paul crushing Grayson. He has a nearly 2-1 lead, 44 percent to Grayson's 23 percent, and a whopping 31-point net favorable rating to Grayson's 11-point net favorable rating.

The secret to Paul's success? He's not seen as a fringe candidate, but as an embodiment of the Tea Parties -- which have a 67 percent favorable rating among GOP primary voters. And he's aided by the endorsement of Sarah Palin. Twenty-eight percent of Kentucky Republicans favor Palin in a hypothetical 2012 primary to only 4 percent who favor Paul's father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).

The younger Paul has been running a pitch-perfect campaign. One example: his rapid-fire response to an ad in which Grayson accused Paul of supporting "Obama's war on coal". Another example is this closing answer at a debate in Paducah. Watch how Paul trains his focus on the parts of hardcore libertarianism most popular with Republican voters.

[darkwing104]

You are being too kind...I would introduce him to the Mine field 100 yard dash...

[Darksheare]

That’s after the boxer and tee shirt sand crawl at noon.

[OCCASparky]

IBTZ...even Sarah said she was only in favor of Paul’s fiscal policy...which means in all other concerns (as we’ve pointed out for nearly 3 years now) that Paul and his progeny are basically nucking futs.

[GQuagmire]

Lightning time! IBTZ

[DJ MacWoW]

Dumb noobies end up ZOT food. You won’t last long.

[Servant of the Cross]

Lightning time!

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

I’ll have the electro-fried crunchy troll with the noob sauce on the side.

[EternalVigilance]

The premise of this thread is false. Even the pollster has admitted as much:

Pollster apologizes for omitting Bill Johnson from poll - admits that results are not accurate [KY]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE         February 24, 2010
INTERVIEWS AND QUESTIONS:  DAVID FLAHERTY 303­-861­-8585
 
MAGELLAN DATA AND MAPPING STRATEGIES APOLOGIZES FOR NOT INCLUDING BILL JOHNSON AND OTHER DECLARED US SENATE CANDIDATES IN KENTUCKY GOP PRIMARY SURVEY
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Louisville, CO – Magellan Strategies CEO David Flaherty today contacted US Senate candidate Bill Johnson and apologized to him personally for not including his name in Magellan’s February 18th survey of likely Republican primary voters.  Magellan CEO David Flaherty stated “It was a gross oversight on our part and we sincerely apologize for any problems this may have caused to the Johnson, Grayson and other Republican US Senate campaigns in Kentucky.”   
 
Flaherty continued, “The US Senate ballot test question from our February 18th survey is not accurate because Bill Johnson and other declared candidates were not included in the question.  Without Bill Johnson and the other primary candidates included in the ballot test question the results are obviously not an accurate reflection of the Republican primary ballot that voters will choose from on May 18th.”

David Flaherty also contacted the Trey Grayson Campaign to apologize for the error. 

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FYI, the poll numbers that reflect reality, according to both the Johnson and Grayson campaigns, can be found HERE. They show Rand Paul in third, and the strength of his support to be very weak.

[TXBlair]

Run along, little girl. See yaaaaaaa.....

LOL! You really don't want to make any friends around here, do you?

[Christian_Capitalist]

IBTZ...even Sarah said she was only in favor of Paul’s fiscal policy...which means in all other concerns (as we’ve pointed out for nearly 3 years now) that Paul and his progeny are basically nucking futs.

That's odd. She said nothing restricting her endorsement to fiscal policy.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has endorsed Bowling Green eye surgeon Rand Paul in the U.S. Senate race in Kentucky.

Palin said in a written statement that she’s “proud to support grassroots candidates like Dr. Paul.” She said is lending her support because Paul, the son of former presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas, wants to “shake up the status quo in Washington.”

In fact, when challenged by uber-dork William Kristol on her endorsement of Rand Paul, Palin jumped quickly to defend Paul's command of Constitutional issues as one of her main reasons for endorsement.

“Asked by “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace why she endorsed Paul, Palin said “Because he’s a federalist and he wants the states to have more say and as we respect the 10th Amendment in our Constitution, he wants the states to have more say in a lot of these issues.”"

So, Sarah Palin supports Rand Paul because he's a good Constitutionalist.

Sounds like a great team to me!

[Christian_Capitalist]

That's fair enough. I would have liked to have seen the results with Johnson included.

Personally, I doubt he's above 5% statewide, but he deserves to be included. He does have some measurable support.

[Servant of the Cross]

It's Alive!

[Christian_Capitalist]

If Allegra is as tough as everyone seems to be saying, I doubt that she's so thin-skinned to be emotionally scarred for life by my telling her to "run along, little girl"... I'm sure she'll be fine.

She said I looked like an idiot, I told her to run along. Sticks and stones and all that; I doubt that I actually hurt her feelings or anything. Sheesh.

[ansel12]

You are starting to get pretty shifty for someone that I thought was honest.

First the "truther supported" was entirely too slick for an honest person, but putting a quote on Rand Paul that isn't his is blatant lying, that was him as a representative on his father's 2008 campaign in 2007 when he was answering questions about what the Presidential candidate believed, that is why he was saying HE says, He wants, HE believes.

[Christian_Capitalist]

Gee... sorry for the delay in response.

My wife and I had to go to dinner with the sound engineer and his wife from church, and then after dinner we had to record my next radio spot (on the Biblical argument against egregious taxation) for "Tea Time" Tea Party radio in Virginia.

I do have to take some off from the interwebs to go out and, y'know, actually advance conservative causes and stuff. My apologies for having to step away.

[fieldmarshaldj]

So you support Junior Paul ?

[Allegra]

That’s after the boxer and tee shirt sand crawl at noon.

In late July. :)

[Christian_Capitalist]

It sounds like Rand is as goofy as his dad. If this is so why would Sarah want to have anything more to do with him? She also endorsed McCrazy, but I bet she would never run with him again.

“Asked by “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace why she endorsed Paul, Palin said “Because he’s a federalist and he wants the states to have more say and as we respect the 10th Amendment in our Constitution, he wants the states to have more say in a lot of these issues.”"

[ansel12]

I don’t support lying, this forum won’t be very good if people are just making things up, doesn’t that bother you even a little?

You didn’t deny, you didn’t defend, you simply tried a different tack, please address the lying first.

[Allegra]

He’d be clinging to your skirts if he followed you for a day of work! ROFLMAO

That flaming anti-war spam monkey would likely lose control of his bladder and begin weeping like a little girl at the sound of a heavy door slamming. ;-)