Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway appears to have the best shot at defeating either of the two Republican candidates who hope to fill the Senate seat being vacated by the retirement of Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, according to a Rasmussen Research Reports poll taken Sept. 30.
Conway, a Democrat, holds a slender 42 percent to 38 percent lead over eye surgeon Rand Paul, who is running for the Republican nomination for Senate and is tied at 40 percent with in a trial heat with Republican Secretary of State Trey Grayson, according to the Rasmussen survey.
Both Grayson and Paul hold slight leads over Democratic Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo, 44 percent to 37 percent and 43 percent to 38 percent, respectively.
Kentucky voters are not optimistic about the future of the economy or confident that passage of health care overhaul legislation will make their lives better. Fifty-three percent say passage of the proposals backed by the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress will make health care worse, and 56 percent say health care will also become more expensive.
Just 5 percent of likely voters in Kentucky rate the country's economy as excellent or good, and 94 percent rate if fair or poor, Rasmussen said.
The poll is based on telephone interviews with 500 likely voters in Kentucky and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
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