State party groups reach out to voters through mail before Election Day
10/31/2014 04:15 PM
UPDATED WITH LETTER TO ATTORNEY GENERAL: The Republican and Democratic parties in the state are targeting voters before Election Day through letters addressed to voters to give them information before they head to their polling place Tuesday. The Republican Party of Kentucky has sent out a piece of mail that says in big bold capitalized text on the front of the letter “Election Violation Notice.” It then says “the information enclosed contains facts related to a possible fraud perpetrated on citizens... Read more 
After Warren's campaign says they plan to pull Miles' TV ad from the air, she releases a radio spot
10/31/2014 03:28 PM
State Rep. Suzanne Miles, R-Owensboro, has taken off the gloves in her tough re-election race, releasing back-to-back negative ads about her Democratic opponent John Warren on allegations of domestic violence in his past and an alcohol related arrest. On Thursday, Miles released an ad showing a mugshot of Warren alongside documents that show allegations of domestic violence by the Democratic candidate’s then-wife. After she released the ad, Warren’s campaign said they would be speaking to an attorney about having the... Read more
McConnell leads Grimes by 5 in latest Bluegrass Poll
10/31/2014 09:46 AM
Kentucky U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell has widened his lead on Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes five days from Election Day, according to the results of the latest Bluegrass Poll released late Thursday. The poll, conducted by SurveyUSA for The Courier-Journal, The Lexington Herald-Leader, WHAS-TV and WKYT-TV with a 4.1 percent margin of error, shows McConnell grabbing 48 percent support from 597 likely voters surveyed this week compared to 43 percent backing Grimes. Libertarian candidate David Patterson pulled 3 percent support and 6... Read more
20 House races to watch on Tuesday as parties jockey for control of chamber
11/02/2014 03:06 PM
The math is simple: state House Republicans need to defend the seats they have and pick up five more to take control of the chamber for the first time since 1921. But the path for how they do it is anything but simple with dozens of contested races and as many as 20 in play heading into Tuesday. Thanks to redistricting and retirements, the parties are battling in six contested open seats. Democrats have 52 incumbents seeking reelection on Tuesday... Read more
Amid legal wranglings over mailings in eastern Ky., Grimes barnstorms western Ky.
11/02/2014 02:31 PM
MURRAY – Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes denounced Republican mailers using the heading “Election Violation Notice” as a bullying tactic as she sought to whip up votes during her final two-day swing through much of western Kentucky. Grimes told the more than 75 people who squeezed into the Hungry Bear pancake house in Murray Sunday morning that the race is now in their hands. Western Kentucky voters have gotten used to that responsibility in recent years as they helped give Bill... Read more
Half of all registered voters are expected on Election Day; Find out where clerks are expecting surges and whimpers
11/02/2014 09:05 AM
Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, who is headlining the ballot for Democrats in her challenge to U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, is projecting that nearly half of all registered voters in the state will show up to the polls on Tuesday. In her official role Grimes predicted approximately 49 percent of the state’s 3.1 million residents registered to vote would turn out on Election Day. “After reviewing absentee data provided by our county clerks and historical turnout in similar election cycles, I... Read more
Hillary Clinton rallies Democrats for Grimes in Lexington, northern Kentucky
11/01/2014 06:43 PM
LEXINGTON — Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton struck a populist tone in her final campaign pitch for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes Saturday, stumping twice for Grimes days after a new poll shows her trailing U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell. Regardless of survey results that have her 5 points behind the five-term incumbent, Clinton, Grimes and a cadre of Democratic politicians urged a crowd of about 1,400 enthusiastic supporters at Transylvania University’s Haggin Auditorium to volunteer and push... Read more
McConnell rallies his troops to get out the vote ahead of Tuesday
11/01/2014 10:23 AM
LOUISVILLE — U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell started his Saturday before Election Day in Louisville rallying his troops in an effort to get out the vote ahead of Tuesday’s election. At the Best Western across the parking lot from McConnell’s campaign headquarters the five-term incumbent thanked campaign staffers and volunteers for giving up the next few days in an effort to turnout voters on Election Day. “At headquarters we’ve run out of things to do. We’ve raised all the money we... Read more
Grimes campaign files injuction against RPK for mailer; McConnell campaign "exploring legal recourse" on KDP mailer
10/31/2014 10:22 PM
With less than 100 hours left on the clock before Election Day the campaign for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes and U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell are trading legal notices over campaign mailers. The Grimes campaign reacted late Friday to a mailer circulating in Eastern Kentucky that looks like an official election notice, with bold text reading: “Election Violation Notice.” Once opened the mailer lists claims Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes made in a TV ad that have... Read more
Race for 50th Dist. House pits Emerge Ky. grad against representative with 10 years in chamber
10/31/2014 04:38 PM
BARDSTOWN — State Rep. David Floyd, R-Bardstown, has served in the House for a decade, but he faces a motivated young challenger in Democrat Audrey Haydon, an Emerge Kentucky graduate. Running in a newly crafted district, Floyd and Haydon have been making their cases to voters, knocking on doors and even taking to the television airwaves over several issues. Haydon, 29, a lawyer who practices in Bardstown with her husband Muncie and father Ben, is running her campaign as a fresh... Read more
WASHINGTON — They might not be bums, but voters are poised to throw a lot of politicians out Tuesday.Click to Continue » [...]
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No, dear voter, it wasn't a dream. If you were watching television this weekend in Arkansas, you really did see that many political ads.Click to Continue » [...]
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Republicans are poised to take control of the Senate, provided they avoid Election Day upsets and win at least three of a half-dozen close races they feel they are ahead.Click to Continue » [...]
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By Jack Brammer jbrammer@herald-leader.com WINCHESTER — State Senate candidate Ralph Alvarado’s defamation lawsuit against his Democratic opponent, state Senate Minority Floor Leader R.J. Palmer, has to wait another day for a hearing. A hearing was scheduled Wednesday afternoon before Clark Circuit Judge Jean Logue to hear Alvarado’s request that Palmer’s campaign stop a TV ad […] [...]
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