Senate Democrats Buy Ad Hammering McConnell

"The national committee supporting Democratic Senate candidates took the unprecedented step yesterday of launching an attack ad against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell," the Louisville Courier-Journal report, "indicating the Kentucky race is one the party thinks it can win."

The move comes after months in which the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee largely ignored Louisville businessman Bruce Lunsford's race against McConnell while sinking money into eight other campaigns across the country.

"Our private polling mirrors the public polling," Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, the committee's chairman, told reporters in Washington yesterday.

The Courier-Journal's Bluegrass Poll, taken Sept. 22-25, found that McConnell's double-digit lead had shrunk to one percentage point as the nation's economic woes deepened.

Asked if Kentucky is now more of a Democratic priority than it was only weeks ago, Schumer said: "It's very safe to say that."

Here's the ad: