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05-17-2010, 04:36 AM
By James R. Carroll • The Courier-Journal • May
16, 2010
Kentucky will be in the national spotlight
Tuesday — heck, it’s already there — for
something other than a sporting event.
The commonwealth’s primary for the U.S. Senate
is being closed watched as a gauge of voter
dissatisfaction, if not anger, with incumbents in
Washington.
Kentucky is among a handful of states where
voters will decide how much of the status quo
needs to go.
Senators in Arkansas and Pennsylvania anxiously
await their verdicts in hard-fought races, while
little-noticed Oregon votes on Senate and
gubernatorial races.
Of course, no incumbent senator actually is
running in Kentucky. But the Republican primary
has become a referendum, in part, on Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson is seen
by some, including his GOP primary opponent,
Rand Paul, as a McConnell acolyte. Paul is riding
the tea party wave of anti-government, anti-
incumbent feeling to take it to Grayson and
McConnell.
Polls show Paul’s message has taken hold, and
that has snapped around heads in the media and
in both political parties.
Ironically, Paul is being heavily encouraged by an
incumbent — the current occupant of the seat,
Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., who has turned one-
time protégé Grayson’s picture to the wall and
taken McConnell’s portrait clean off the wall.
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100516/COLUMNISTS20/5160314/James+R.+Carroll+|+Kentucky+leads+national+watch+i n+Tuesday+s+vote
16, 2010
Kentucky will be in the national spotlight
Tuesday — heck, it’s already there — for
something other than a sporting event.
The commonwealth’s primary for the U.S. Senate
is being closed watched as a gauge of voter
dissatisfaction, if not anger, with incumbents in
Washington.
Kentucky is among a handful of states where
voters will decide how much of the status quo
needs to go.
Senators in Arkansas and Pennsylvania anxiously
await their verdicts in hard-fought races, while
little-noticed Oregon votes on Senate and
gubernatorial races.
Of course, no incumbent senator actually is
running in Kentucky. But the Republican primary
has become a referendum, in part, on Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson is seen
by some, including his GOP primary opponent,
Rand Paul, as a McConnell acolyte. Paul is riding
the tea party wave of anti-government, anti-
incumbent feeling to take it to Grayson and
McConnell.
Polls show Paul’s message has taken hold, and
that has snapped around heads in the media and
in both political parties.
Ironically, Paul is being heavily encouraged by an
incumbent — the current occupant of the seat,
Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., who has turned one-
time protégé Grayson’s picture to the wall and
taken McConnell’s portrait clean off the wall.
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100516/COLUMNISTS20/5160314/James+R.+Carroll+|+Kentucky+leads+national+watch+i n+Tuesday+s+vote