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Western Kentucky University's 2014 Big Red Poll released on Monday shows that incumbent Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) leads Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes by 3 points, 45% to 42%, among likely voters in the Kentucky U.S. Senate race. The poll, coming two weeks before election day, indicates the race is still close, despite numerous recent gaffes by Grimes and news that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has stopped funding television advertising in support of her candidacy. 5% of likely voters supported Libertarian David Patterson, and 8% were undecided. The most surprising result of the poll is that, despite a bitter...

A national tea party group will hold a news conference in Wichita on Monday with U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, but leaders stopped short of saying whether the group plans to endorse the Republican incumbent. “It will be an announcement,” said Taylor Budowich, executive director of the Tea Party Express, a California-based group that describes itself as the nation’s largest tea party political action committee. The news conference, set for 11 a.m. at the Sedgwick County Republican party headquarters in west Wichita, will be attended by Roberts and local tea party leaders and activists, Budowich said. Earlier this year the group...

U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson has been subpoenaed to testify on Oct. 21 in a civil case that claimed he paid roughly $40,000 to a consulting company created by a tea party activist. The case stemmed from defamation lawsuit filed by tea party activist and longtime conservative campaign consultant Doug Guetzloe against three people who claimed that Guetzloe and his Tea Party of Florida group “hijacked” the name of the national tea party movement. The defendants' lawyer Wade Vose, on the other hand, claimed Guetzloe helped form a consulting company called Public Opinion Strategies with financial backing from Grayson. “My clients...