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Rand Paul leads Jack Conway by 53 percent to 41 percent

Jack Conway and Rand Paul

Newscast Media — According to Rasmussen’s latest poll, Rand Paul still holds a comfortable lead and is ahead by 12 points. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state, taken Wednesday night, shows Paul with 53 percent support to Conway’s 41 percent Two percent prefer some other candidate in the race, and four percent are undecided.

After narrowing somewhat last week, the race moved back to where it’s been for most of the year. As a result, it’s moving back from Leans Republican to Solid Republican in the Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Senate Balance of Power rankings. In 12 surveys prior to last week, Paul had led by seven to 15 points each time, earning 46 percent to 59 percent of the vote. Conway, Kentucky’s current attorney general, picked up 34 percent to 42percent support in those same surveys.

The candidates held their final debate on Monday night, and Democrats are now trying to capitalize on a violent incident outside the debate involving a Paul supporter and an liberal activist. Former President Clinton is scheduled go come to the state on Monday to campaign for Conway.

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Rand Paul Hoax Story By GQ Is A Corporate Media Disinformation Campaign

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Newscast Media — GQ magazine has proven itself to be a tool for the corporate media by publishing false allegations and deceiving the public with their Rand Paul hoax story. This kind of unprofessional journalism is the reason why many readers and viewers have a distrust for the media. GQ editors published a story this week claiming that Rand Paul kidnapped a nameless woman and forced her to get high on drugs. It turns out, the whole hit piece was a hoax, and I would be surprised if GQ doesn’t get sued by the Rand Paul camp.

In a feature, GQ has revealed that they were lying to their readers and the whole thing was a giant hoax. Perhaps the magazine has so much contempt for its readers it doesn’t think they are capable of doing their own research. The conservative politician was supposedly a member of a secret society called the NoZe Brotherhood while an undergraduate at Baylor University. The group participated in a variety of pranks on university administration. As a member of the group, the news source claimed, he once kidnapped a female member of the university swim team and forced her to do drugs.

In the GQ article, the nameless woman was quoted: “They told me their god was ‘Aqua Buddha’ and that I needed to bow down and worship him … they blindfolded me and made me bow down to ‘Aqua Buddha’ in the creek. I had to say, ‘I worship you Aqua Buddha, I worship you.”

Now the nameless woman says that while the odd things did occur, she apparently was never kidnapped in the legal sense of the term.

“The whole thing has been blown out of proportion … they didn’t force me, they didn’t make me. They were creating this drama: ‘We’re messing with you,” the woman told the Washington Post.

Paul’s campaign spokesperson Jesse Benton wrote in an email, “It is satisfying to see the libelous and grossly irresponsible charges of kidnapping completely shot down. It remains puzzling to us why the drive-by media continues to focus on an alleged 30 year old teenage prank when our nation faces high unemployment, a thirteen trillion dollar debt and are threatened with a Cap and Trade national energy tax.”

The woman says she doesn’t want her name in print because she’s a clinical psychologist who works with former members of the military, some of whom are Tea Partyers, and fears that complicating Paul’s Senate run could put her in danger, even though she didn’t hesitate to put Paul’s campaign in danger.

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Rand Paul denies alleged kidnapping

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Newscast Media –On Tuesday, the Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky on Tuesday denied suggestions he ever kidnapped anyone or forced them to use drugs, and said he hasn’t ruled out a lawsuit against a magazine that ran an article describing events from his college days.

The article in GQ quotes an unnamed woman as saying Paul and a friend once blindfolded her, tied her up, drove her to their house and tried to force her to smoke marijuana. The woman said she and Paul were teammates on the Baylor University swim team at the time, about a quarter-century ago.

In an interview with Fox News, Paul did not directly answer when asked about another detail in the article attributed to the woman — that he and his friend drove her to a creek, where they told her their god was “Aqua Buddha” and she should bow down to him.

“To produce someone anonymously, and then I’m supposed to somehow respond to an anonymous person from 27 years ago, who in the end says — whoever this person was, says — we didn’t do any harm to them and it was all in fun and we didn’t do anything wrong — and yet it’s being characterized as kidnapping, it’s kind of a craziness,” Paul said. http://newscastmedia.com/randpaul.htm