There are two articles today on Senator McConnell's record-breaking fundraising. Here are some excerpts from the stories in The Kentucky Enquirer and The Courier Journal.
McConnell, the Senate GOP leader, announced this afternoon that he has raised $9.1 million and has $6.8 million in the bank. The amount raised is a record for a Kentucky Senate race and his cash-on-hand leads all Republican Senate races in the nation.
"We have started our campaign early, we are working hard, and we will not slow down before Election Day next year," McConnell said in the statement. McConnell is seeking a fifth term in 2008 and is so far unopposed.
Unopposed so far for a fourth term, McConnell is setting fundraising records. His cash on hand and the money he has raised to date exceed the total for any other Republican nationally in a U.S. Senate race -- and is a record for a Kentucky Senate race. And that cash on hand is more than the $6 million Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., spent on his re-election campaign in 2004.
The Courier-Journal's latest Bluegrass Poll, published Sept. 23, showed that a majority of Kentuckians approve of the job McConnell is doing, even though they are nearly evenly divided over whether he should back the Iraq war. McConnell's 54 percent job approval rating was the same as in the previous poll in February, despite numerous television ads criticizing him for his war stance.
