Apparently Rand Paul, the candidate who is getting all the support from white supremacists, is the mainstream candidate now. Rand Paul continues to be followed around the state by Bill Johnson, who often has Alan Keyes in tow, making the argument that Rand Paul is too mainstream for the Republican primary for U.S. Senate.
Joe Arnold reports on a self-funded poll by Bill Johnson’s campaign (which of course means it could have been phrased in any sort of self-fulfilling manner) that shows Trey Grayson at 29%, Rand Paul at 25%, Bill Johnson at 14%, Thoney at 2%, Oerther at 1%, Martin at 1%, and 28% of the voters undecided. The poll of 1113 likely voters has a margin of error of 3.5%.
Recall last month—A fascinating and unexpected turn of events came from Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Rand Paul actually was the more mainstream of the two Republican U.S. Senate Candidates in town for rallies. In fact, the Central Kentucky Tea Party Patriots were rallying around the teabagger, but this time it was—Bill Johnson? Rand Paul is the mainstream candidate of the evening.
For some video on Keyes and Johnson at a recent Madison County Rally (in a church, of course), see below.
Keyes video:
Johnson video, including a moving tribute to guns given at the church event:
The poll is bunk. Why even bother talking about it? That is what Johnson’s campaign wants. The next independent poll will have him right back at his usual 2%.
Until the sum of all the single digit candidates in a poll exceeds the support of any two other candidates – the polls with that many candidates is illegitimate.
rand Neander paul or is it Ne-rand-er paul is quite definitely now the centrist candidate. With daddy in the Congress and trey grey still trying to be a republican, like Chandler is trying to be a Democrat, there is no legitimate reactionary representing the rite-weng of the party. Well … alan keyes – but he’s not eleigible. johnson, et al have no standing because keyes out polls all of them combined.
Oh yeah, a general election between greyson & mangy-mongi would be hilarious – neither one would have the suport of its party.
Joe, there are public polls and private polls. Everybody talks about all of them, and takes the private polls with a huge grain of salt. When they favor your candidate, that’s true. When they help another candidate, it’s still true.
I still am rooting for Paul in the primary, for purely Machiavellian reasons.
Go Rand, Go!