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Poll: Rand Paul Easily Leads in Senate Race
The Washington Independent ^
| 2-24-2010
| David Weigel
Posted on 02/24/2010 11:17:49 AM PST by 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.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 2010midterms; kittychow; ky2010; noobnutjob; randpaul; randpaulrealdeal; retread; retreadtroll; sarahpalin; victorkilo; zotbait; zotmebaby; zuluoscartango
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To: Deb
I suggest you take the Yellow Brick Road and walk on thru the wind and the rain to find a religious forum, where people might care what you think. I've been quoting scripture on FR for a while now. If you don't like it, don't read it.
Grace and peace to ya Deb and bless your little P-O-L-I-T-I-C-A-L heart!
Psalm 2
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
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posted on
02/26/2010 12:10:50 PM PST
by
Theophilus
(Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?)
To: Theophilus
Well, you did post to me. If you don’t want me to read your pretend, religious silliness...don’t post to me. Moron.
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posted on
02/26/2010 12:18:34 PM PST
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: Darksheare; Allegra
You truly are mind obliteratingly stupid. Let me know when you have screaming insane people running towards you yelling Allahu ackbar before exploding in downtown roanoke. Can YOU say that? I dont think so.(Shrugs). My point was simply that, I'm pretty sure that the barrel of a gun against your skull feels pretty much the same, regardless of who's holding the weapon -- and the Middle East isn't the only place one can encounter danger to life and limb.
Heck, when (a year or so before we started dating) my own wife had to fight off a muslim rapist -- it wasn't a Ba'athist in Baghdad, rather it was a Berber in Brussels (a Moroccan, at any rate). Go figure.
To her credit, once Belgium's Finest had suspects in custody, the perp was pretty easy for my wife to pick out of the line-up -- what with the broken arm she'd left him.
That's my girl. ;-)
To: Theophilus
Well get with the program already. Mrs. Theophilus is expecting our 10th in June! She's down in Atlanta for the PCA WIC conference and I have the depraved paultards by myself tonight.My heavens!
And here I thought that my pastor was doing his part for Church and Country with his crop of seven.
Congratulations to you and yours... and yours... and yours... etc. (grin)
To: Christian_Capitalist; Allegra
You’re a girl CC?
Who knew.
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posted on
02/27/2010 4:34:58 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
To: Darksheare; Allegra; Theophilus
Youre a girl CC? Who knew.No, my wife is.
But I suppose you could be forgiven for thinking that she wears the pants in the family. ;-)
Let's review:
Responses to potentially life-threatening situations:
Christian_Capitalist: Meekly handed over my wallet to the mugger, hoping that he wouldn't get an "itchy trigger finger" and leave my brains splattered all over the pavement.
Mrs. Christian_Capitalist: Left her muslim-rapist assailant lying in a pool of his own blood, begging her to stop kicking him.
Yeah, my wife's kindofa bad@ss, all five-foot-nothing of her. I'm not ashamed to admit it.
To: Christian_Capitalist; Allegra
Hey, you’re the one who decided to be a jerk to Allegra.
AND you’re pushing a moonbat known as Mr. Paul.
And you don’t seem to get the hint.
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02/28/2010 7:03:22 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
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