Another round of hounds in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race

Republican Mitch McConnell’s campaign has offered its own new take on the famed 1984 ad that featured bloodhounds on the trail of then-incumbent U.S. Sen. Walter “Dee” Huddleston. 
That 24-year-old ad had the hounds searching for Huddleston who was accused of running from his record by McConnell, who beat Huddleston that year to win his first term [...]

Lunsford camp offers Halloween costume suggestion

Supporters of Bruce Lunsford received a Halloween costume suggestion from the Louisville Democrat’s campaign today – a  mask of Republican Mitch McConnell. 
The e-mail sent this morning by Lunsford Campaign Manager Brad Katz said the campaign “can’t think of anything scarier than another six years of Mitch McConnell.”
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Another six years of obstructionism, putting [...]

Two arrested in Obama effigy incident at UK

Beth Musgrave with the Herald-Leader is reporting today that police have arrested a University of Kentucky student and one of his friends in connection with an effigy of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama that was hung from a tree on campus this week. 
The two men told police it was a prank in response to reports [...]

First Lady Laura Bush to campaign for Guthrie Monday

First Lady Laura Bush will make a stop in Kentucky Monday to campaign for Republican congressional candidate Brett Guthrie and others in the final day before the election. 
Bush will join Guthrie, state Rep. Dwight Butler of Harned, state Rep. David Floyd of Bardstown and Republican candidate Trina Summers, who is running in the 49th state [...]

Line-up for Kentucky Tonight on Monday

The election edition of KET’s program Kentucky Tonight with host Bill Goodman on Monday will feature:
- Kentucky Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville
- State Senator Gerald Neal, D-Louisville
- Steve Robertson, chair of the Republican Party of Kentucky
- Jennifer Moore, chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party
The program will not take live phone calls [...]

Sabato predicts Dems will pick up KY-2 seat

Larry Sabato with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics is predicting a gain of between 26 and 35 seats in the U.S. House by Democrats on Tuesday, including the Kentucky 2nd. 
In a new list of predictions on House races nationwide, Sabato lists the 2nd District seat being sought by Democrat David Boswell and Republican [...]

Guthrie up by 10 in latest SurveyUSA poll

Republican Brett Guthrie of Bowling Green continues to build on his lead in Kentucky’s 2nd Congressional District, according to the latest SurveyUSA conducted this week for Roll Call newspaper in Washington D.C. and WHAS-TV in Louisville.
The survey of 587 likely voters contacted on Monday and Tuesday found that 53 percent plan to back Guthrie and 43 [...]

Obama hanged in effigy at UK campus

An investigation is under way in Lexington to determine who hung an effigy of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus. 
The effigy was discovered this morning by a faculty member who saw it hanging high in a tree and contacted police, according to the Associated Press and the Herald-Leader. 
The incident has prompted [...]

Biden to campaign in “Evansville area” Saturday

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden will be campaigning in the “Evansville area” on Saturday, though the times and exact locations haven’t been released.
The Associated Press and the Evansville Courier-Press cite the Barack Obama campaign as its source for the news of the visit, which was announced Tuesday night.
No word on whether Owensboro might also [...]

Hillary Clinton coming to Kentucky, Owensboro stop unlikely

Former presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton will be in Kentucky Sunday campaigning for Democrat Bruce Lunsford, but a visit to Owensboro before Election Day seems unlikely. 
Clinton will make stops in Hazard in far eastern Kentucky and in Louisville during the day as she talks up Lunsford, who is facing incumbent Republican Mitch McConnell in [...]