Kentucky Senate Race

Rand Paul Defeats Jack Conway In Kentucky Senate Race

AP | MIKE HAMMER | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Republican Rand Paul, a tea party favorite, has been elected to the Senate from Kentucky in his first run for office. The son of libert...

Kentucky Election Results: Rand Paul Defeats Jack Conway In 2010 Senate Race

AP | ROGER ALFORD and BRUCE SCHREINER | Posted 05.25.2011

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky voters made Rand Paul their next senator Tuesday in a convincing display of tea party strength that defied Democratic...

Rand Paul Vows To 'Challenge' Mitch McConnell

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

A lot has changed since Rand Paul declared victory over his opponent, Trey Grayson, in Kentucky's GOP Senate primary. He made the quick transition fro...

The Rise Of Rand Paul & How Tea Party-Backed Candidates Could Face Rocky Road On Capitol Hill

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 05.25.2011

CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — As Rand Paul lumbers toward an expected win in Kentucky's often nasty Senate race, he embodies the promise and peril of a ...

Rand Paul Supporter Wants Stomping Victim To Apologize To HIM

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

Tim Profitt, the Rand Paul supporter behind the white sneaker that notoriously stomped on a MoveOn activist's head in Kentucky, sought to play down th...

Kentucky Senate Election 2010: Predict The Winner! (POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

Who will be the next Kentucky Senator? Republican Rand Paul faces off against Democrat Jack Conway on Nov. 2. Think you can predict the winner? Vote ...

Rand Paul Addresses 'Aqua Buddha' Accusation

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

Rand Paul continued to deny having any recollection of a purported college-aged incident in which the now-Kentucky GOP Senate candidate allegedly kidn...

WATCH: Rand Paul Hits Back At Democratic Opponent

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

The dogfight for Kentucky's U.S. Senate seat continued Monday as Republican Rand Paul released an ad blasting Democrat Jack Conway for his latest poli...

New Report Sheds Light On Rand Paul's Bizarre Former Secret Society

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

Be careful what you do in college, because you never know when you'll run for Senate. It's the kind of warning that parents give their kids all the ti...

Howard Fineman

The Power Of Clinton, The Invisibility Of Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Howard Fineman | Posted 05.25.2011

LOUISVILLE -- I see that Dr. Rand Paul has taken out after Bill Clinton, dredging up Monica Lewinsky. And I know why Paul did so. The former president...

Rand Paul Lobs Lewinsky Attack At Bill Clinton

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

Rand Paul took a harsh line against Bill Clinton on Monday, attacking him with a below-the-belt jab focused on the former president's sexual indiscret...

Rand Paul At Machine Gun Rally: 'We're Clinging To Our Guns, Our Religions And Our Ammunition'

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul appeared at a three-day Kentucky machine gun shoot and show over the weekend to rally support among the state's gu...

New Rand Paul Ad Imitates Obama's Voice (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul is borrowing a familiar voice for his latest campaign ad -- President Obama's. But if something sounds slightly am...

New Jack Conway Ad Targets Rand Paul's Medicare 'Solution' Of $2,000 Deductible (VIDEO)

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

(AP) - Democratic Senate candidate Jack Conway has a new television ad that shows his Republican opponent saying that "the real answer to Medicare" wo...

Sam Stein

Jack Conway's First Statewide Ad Ignores Rand Paul

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

In his first statewide ad of the general election, Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway has taken a different approach from other Democrats running a...

Jack Conway Agrees To Debate Rand Paul On Fox News, Challenges Him To 'Meet The Press' Debate

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

Kentucky Democrat Jack Conway, the man set to face Rand Paul in November for the open Senate seat of retiring Republican Senator Jim Bunning, has agre...

Jack Conway Blasts Rand Paul, Presses Kentucky Voters To Reject 'Ignorance' (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Democrat Jack Conway is going on the offensive in his campaign for U.S. Senate in Kentucky and urging voters to reject the "ignorance" of Republican r...

Kentucky Senate Race Attracts High-Profile Donors

Posted 05.25.2011

FRANKFORT Ky. (AP) Kentucky's U.S. Senate race, one of the most closely watched in the nation, has been bolstered with out-of-state money, some from p...

Rand Paul 'Not Thinking About Afghanistan,' Says Foreign Policy Is 'A Complete Non-Issue'

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul says he's "not thinking about Afghanistan" much and that "foreign policy is really a complete non-issue." Paul di...

Rand Paul Faces Backlash After Suggesting That America's Poor Don't Have It That Bad (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

AP/Huffington Post - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul says the poor in America are "enormously better off than the rest of the world," citin...

Rand Paul Worries That Obama's BP Criticism Is Putting Oil Giant 'Out Of Business'

AP | BRUCE SCHREINER | Posted 05.25.2011

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul said Thursday that harsh criticism of BP by President Barack Obama's administration coul...

Rand Paul: Kentucky Senate Hopeful Faces Fire From Tea Party Over Embrace Of GOP Establishment

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul is facing fire from members of the Tea Party over his decision to attend a fundraiser hosted by GOP law...

Rand Paul Once Said He Would Pardon Himself If He Faced A Scandal

AP | BRUCE SCHREINER | Posted 05.25.2011

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky Republican senatorial candidate Rand Paul wrote in a newspaper four years ago that he would have pardoned himself if he h...

Rand Paul Under Fire For Accepting Government Payments For Treating Medicare And Medicaid Patients

AP | BRUCE SCHREINER | Posted 05.25.2011

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul says he opposes federal handouts, but the eye doctor takes government payments for tre...

Rand Paul Keeping A Low Profile

AP | ROGER ALFORD | Posted 05.25.2011

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Where in the world is Rand Paul? His campaign says he isn't hiding, but the Republican U.S. Senate nominee has barely been see...