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Recent Pre-Debate Scuffle Thematic of KY Voters Angry Mood

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Friday, October 29, 2010   

FRANKFORT, Ky. - An Eastern Kentucky University political science professor says the attack of a liberal activist by supporters of U.S. Senate GOP candidate Rand Paul before the final debate Monday night, is symbolic of the nasty tone in this year's mid-term elections.

Joe Gershtenson, director of the Kentucky Institute of Public Governance and Civic Engagement at EKU, says the strength of the Tea Party movement has unearthed angst-filled voters frustrated with politics and the government.

"This sense of a real emotional commitment this election, some anxiety associated with the state of the economy and where the country is headed."

Gershtenson says Paul has moderated his Libertarian leanings somewhat, yet is hammering one main message.

"The national government having overstepped its bounds, being somewhat out of control, and the need to really rein in the national government."

Democrat Jack Conway hopes his strategy will hit home in painting Paul as out of touch with Kentucky values on issues like Social Security and Medicare. But, Gershtenson adds, job concerns loom larger than all others in the minds of many voters.

"There's still some real angst about the state of the economy, and I think that's what the 2010 elections are about more than anything else, and that works against the Democratic Party."

Of Kentucky's six congressional races, four of them are tightly secured by Republicans. Recent polls show contests in the state's only two Democrat-controlled congressional districts in Fayette and Jefferson counties -- once deemed safe for the incumbents -- are tightening. According to the Kentucky secretary of state's office, voter turnout in Kentucky is expected to be around 48 percent.





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