CN|2 Politics

The statewide races remain roughly where they were a month and a half ago, according to the latest cn|2 Poll, with Democratic candidates holding advantages in each race. Gov. Steve Beshear and running mate Jerry Abramson maintain a 28-point lead over the Republican ticket of David Williams and Richie Farmer, 54 percent to 26 percent, according to the cn|2 Poll taken Oct. 17-19. The independent ticket of Gatewood Galbraith and Dea Riley received 8 percent of respondents’ support, while 12... Read more 

Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear, who has been running ads for most of the summer, leads in the governor’s race by nearly 29 points, according to a snapshot of the race from the cn|2 Poll. Beshear and running mate Jerry Abramson have widened the margin by eight points from the first general election cn|2 Poll from June. About 53.5 percent of respondents said they would support the Democratic ticket if the election were held today compared to 25.3 percent for the... Read more 

Democrats running for the other statewide offices in the November election start with leads in the first general election cn|2 Poll, with the race for state auditor starting as the closest contest. Attorney General Jack Conway and state Treasurer Todd Hollenbach are the only incumbents running for re-election, other than Gov. Steve Beshear. Both Conway and Hollenbach start with double-digit leads in the cn|2 Poll. Conway starts in the strongest position, garnering more than 56% of support from respondents against... Read more 

After airing ads for the last three weeks, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear posted a 21-point lead over the Republican challenger David Williams, according to the latest cn|2 Poll. Beshear and his running mate, Jerry Abramson, received 51% of support compared to just under 30% for Williams and his running mate, Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer. The independent ticket of Gatewood Galbraith and Dea Riley polled at below 6%, and nearly 14% said they were undecided. With a lot of time and... Read more 

The only GOP ticket to air ads so far in this election has a solid lead in the Republican primary for governor but more than a third of likely GOP voters surveyed still say they haven’t made up their minds, the latest cn|2 Poll shows. The slate of state Senate President David Williams and Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer received support from 38.8% of respondents. They have been airing radio spots since the last week in March and went up on... Read more 

The races for the Republican nominations for state auditor, secretary of state and agriculture commissioner remain wide open with between 60% and 70% of likely GOP voters polled for cn|2 saying they’re undecided. That’s not too surprising in an election in which voters haven’t show much excitement and when the candidates for those offices are just beginning to advertise this week, said Scott Lasley. Lasley is an associate professor of political science at Western Kentucky University and Warren County’s Republican... Read more 

Kentuckians surveyed in this week’s cn|2 Poll largely split over whether the state was headed in the right direction or the wrong track. And by a nearly a five-point margin, those Kentuckians surveyed said they most trust Democrats to handle the Kentucky government’s budget. About 42.3% of the 804 respondents picked Democrats compared to 37.4% for Republicans and a total of 6% were unsure or didn’t respond, according to the poll results. The survey was conducted Feb. 28 and... Read more 

The first poll of Kentucky’s 2011 attorney general’s race shows that Jack Conway — after running two statewide races — begins with a nearly 20-point advantage over Republican challenger Todd P’Pool. P’Pool, the 37-year-old Hopkins County Attorney, is making his first statewide run and, in fact, his first campaign outside of Hopkins County where he was the first Republican to win county-wide office since the Civil War. Neither Conway nor P’Pool drew opposition in the May 17 primary elections making... Read more 

With the release of the cn|2 Poll results featuring head-to-head matchups of gubernatorial tickets and the attorney general race, Pure Politics brought in a Republican and Democratic operative to break down the numbers. Holly Harris VonLeuhrte — the finance chairwoman and legal counsel for the Republican Party of Kentucky — and Matt Erwin, communications director for the Kentucky Democratic Party, offered their opposing outlooks on the governor’s race. Gov. Steve Beshear is seeking re-election with former Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson. They... Read more 

Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear and his running mate, former Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson, start with large leads over two GOP tickets but polled below the 50% threshold against the front-running Republican slate, the cn|2 Poll shows. Beshear and Abramson received support from 48.4% of the 804 likely voters when compared to the Republican ticket of David Williams — the Republican Senate president from Burkesville — and Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer. The Williams-Farmer ticket received 37.6% of support, while another... Read more