PPP Polling Monday -- GOP Primary -- US Senate - Kentucky
Rand Paul 54% - Trey Greyson 31%

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) - Rand Paul called for checking big government spending and Trey Grayson took last jabs at his top Republican rival for the U.S. Senate, revisiting their main campaign themes at a GOP dinner Saturday night as their primary showdown loomed.

Sharing a stage for a final time before Tuesday's contest, both gave campaign pitches honed from months of crisscrossing Kentucky.

In back-to-back speeches, Paul repeated themes of ending government bailouts and balancing the federal budget while Grayson criticized his top foe for his opposition to the Patriot Act and for comments he once made about coal. Both issues could be key in the Republican primary.

Paul, a Bowling Green eye surgeon, spent much of Saturday wooing voters in Louisville and in heavily Republican northern Kentucky. Grayson, Kentucky's secretary of state, had concentrated on southeastern Kentucky, a GOP stronghold critical to Tuesday's outcomes.

In Georgetown, Paul painted a dark picture of the nation's future unless Congress reins in spending.

"I think that the times we live in are troubling," he said. "I think we face a day of reckoning."

A political outsider, Paul entered the race as a long shot against Grayson, who has long been considered a rising star in the Kentucky GOP.

An antiestablishment mood that swept the country quickly turned the tables in favor of Paul, said Lexington attorney Larry Forgy, a Republican leader and former gubernatorial candidate.

"This is not an election; this is an uprising," Forgy said. "People are afraid for their country. They're not just fed up. They're deeply concerned, and they're looking for relief."

(05-17-2010 08:43 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  PPP Polling Monday -- GOP Primary -- US Senate - Kentucky
Rand Paul 54% - Trey Greyson 31%

A political outsider, Paul entered the race as a long shot against Grayson, who has long been considered a rising star in the Kentucky GOP.

An antiestablishment mood that swept the country quickly turned the tables in favor of Paul, said Lexington attorney Larry Forgy, a Republican leader and former gubernatorial candidate.

"This is not an election; this is an uprising," Forgy said. "People are afraid for their country. They're not just fed up. They're deeply concerned, and they're looking for relief."

In Polls last week, Paul lead Greyson by 10-16 points. It now looks like the voters are ready to throw "establishment Republican" dirt bags like Greyson, Charlie Crist, etc. under the bus once and for all.