The Louisville Courier-Journal has some good news:
Jack Conway pulls even with Rand Paul in Bluegrass Poll
Democrat Jack Conway has cut sharply into Republican Rand Paul's once-commanding lead in Kentucky's U.S. Senate race, moving into a statistical tie with a little more than five weeks before Election Day, according to the latest Courier-Journal/WHAS11 Bluegrass Poll.
The poll shows that Conway, the state's attorney general, is now appealing to voters who say they are neutral on the tea party — Paul's base of support.
And Conway is building a significant lead among women, who earlier were almost evenly split between the two candidates.
According to the poll, Paul leads Conway 49 percent to 47 percent, with 4 percent undecided. That lead is well within the poll's 4 percentage point margin of error.
The last time SurveyUSA was in the field was at the end of August and Paul led by 15 points 55-40. Since then, six polls have been released, all of them but one showing the race in single digits. (The outlier? Rasmussen, you guessed it.) We polled the race with PPP in the second week of September and showing the race at seven points. And now for the second time in the past week, SurveyUSA's poll shows the race within the margin of error. The other poll came from the DSCC which showed Paul with a 3 point lead.
Bottom-line: Rand Paul's Kubica plan hasn't won it over as many friends as it had hoped. Or maybe (and I admit this is more likely), voters are excited to have someone like Jack Conway on the ballot -- somebody actually understands Kentucky and its values, somebody who stands up and fights for what he believes in, and somebody who believes in getting results instead of fighting ideological battles to advance right-wing extremism.