Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Victory For The Tea Party
KENTUCKY....
Rand Paul and his Tea Party supporters say their win sends a clear message to Congress that the people have come to take their government back. The U.S. Senate race between Bowling Green eye surgeon Republican Rand Paul and Attorney General Democrat Jack Conway that attracted national and international media attention ended Tuesday night with a victory for the Tea Party movement. Paul, making his first bid for public office, used his message of limited government and criticism of President Barack Obama to outdistance Conway and to replace Republican U.S. Senator Jim Bunning. During his campaign, Paul pounded his message while appealing to those concerned and angry over lingering high unemployment, the growing federal deficit and some policies of the Obama Administration. Larry Sabato, a national political analyst who heads the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said, “The only way Conway could’ve won is if Rand Paul completely self-destructed.”
Paul took an early lead over Conway after a nasty campaign marked by a skirmish and hard-hitting ads. With just under 1 percent of precincts reporting, Paul had 13,397, or 58 percent of the vote, to 9,736, or 42 percent, for Conway, with the polls still open in the western half of the state. Paul embraced the tea party message of lower spending and less government, while Conway portrayed Paul as too extreme on taxes, entitlements and drug enforcement. The race turned personal with a Conway ad about Paul's attitude toward religion in college. Democrats tried to capitalize on a pre-debate scuffle where a Paul supporter stepped on a liberal female activist. Several Kentuckians who voted for Paul felt he had been unfairly attacked. Some voters felt both candidates had attacked the other unfairly.
Rand Paul and his Tea Party supporters say their win sends a clear message to Congress that the people have come to take their government back. The U.S. Senate race between Bowling Green eye surgeon Republican Rand Paul and Attorney General Democrat Jack Conway that attracted national and international media attention ended Tuesday night with a victory for the Tea Party movement. Paul, making his first bid for public office, used his message of limited government and criticism of President Barack Obama to outdistance Conway and to replace Republican U.S. Senator Jim Bunning. During his campaign, Paul pounded his message while appealing to those concerned and angry over lingering high unemployment, the growing federal deficit and some policies of the Obama Administration. Larry Sabato, a national political analyst who heads the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said, “The only way Conway could’ve won is if Rand Paul completely self-destructed.”
Paul took an early lead over Conway after a nasty campaign marked by a skirmish and hard-hitting ads. With just under 1 percent of precincts reporting, Paul had 13,397, or 58 percent of the vote, to 9,736, or 42 percent, for Conway, with the polls still open in the western half of the state. Paul embraced the tea party message of lower spending and less government, while Conway portrayed Paul as too extreme on taxes, entitlements and drug enforcement. The race turned personal with a Conway ad about Paul's attitude toward religion in college. Democrats tried to capitalize on a pre-debate scuffle where a Paul supporter stepped on a liberal female activist. Several Kentuckians who voted for Paul felt he had been unfairly attacked. Some voters felt both candidates had attacked the other unfairly.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 10:35 PM 
