"US Senate Candidates Make Final Push For Votes".
US Senate candidates make final push for votes
By ROGER ALFORD and BRUCE SCHREINER
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Former President Bill Clinton exhorted Kentuckians Monday night to "choose right versus wrong" by picking fellow Democrat Jack Conway in his bitter-to-the-end U.S. Senate race against Republican Rand Paul.
Meanwhile, Paul played up the change springing forth from the tea party movement as he told supporters at one stop, "Something big is going on."
Clinton told about 2,000 people gathered on election eve in Louisville that Conway has offered the right course for the country.
"You're not going to get a chance very often to send someone this young, this vigorous, this independent ... to Washington," Clinton said of the 41-year-old attorney general during his stop at the University of Louisville.
"This is not about left and right," Clinton said. "It's about right and wrong and tomorrow versus yesterday. Choose right versus wrong. Choose tomorrow versus yesterday."
Clinton said that Conway is the candidate offering a plan to create jobs and reduce the budget deficit. He said Republicans are interested in cutting taxes for the wealthy, which he said would increase the deficit.
Paul, a Bowling Green eye doctor, has made balancing the budget a central part of his campaign.
Clinton condemned the influx of millions in anonymous, special-interest money spent in Kentucky to bash Conway with ads "distorting what will really happen if you send him" to the Senate.
"Folks, don't be played," Clinton told the cheering crowd in Conway's hometown. The appearance was Clinton's second with Conway in a month.
Conway sounded the same theme, claiming that out-of-state money was spent to mischaracterize him.
"If they were proud of what they were saying, they would have told you who they were in the first place," said Conway, who himself has been criticized for running ads attacking Paul for alleged actions in college.
Paul, a tea party favorite, urged about 40 supporters at an airport in Worthington to encourage friends and neighbors to get out and vote.
The Republican said the tea party movement has energized his campaign and predicted a victory not just for himself, but for other conservative Republicans across the country.
"It's going on all across Kentucky, and it's going on all over America," Paul said.
Paul didn't mention Conway, jesting at one point that he had forgotten his opponent's name.
Conway and Paul crisscrossed Kentucky on Monday in their final push for votes ahead of Tuesday's election.
By the end of the day, Conway and Paul had made airport stops in every region of the state.
The two are running for the seat of retiring Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, who chose not to seek a third term.
Although Republicans are expected to fare well Tuesday, Conway claimed his race "is getting tighter by the minute."
"This thing can be won," Conway said in Lexington. "We're going to win it, but I need your help."
By ROGER ALFORD and BRUCE SCHREINER
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Former President Bill Clinton exhorted Kentuckians Monday night to "choose right versus wrong" by picking fellow Democrat Jack Conway in his bitter-to-the-end U.S. Senate race against Republican Rand Paul.
Meanwhile, Paul played up the change springing forth from the tea party movement as he told supporters at one stop, "Something big is going on."
Clinton told about 2,000 people gathered on election eve in Louisville that Conway has offered the right course for the country.
"You're not going to get a chance very often to send someone this young, this vigorous, this independent ... to Washington," Clinton said of the 41-year-old attorney general during his stop at the University of Louisville.
"This is not about left and right," Clinton said. "It's about right and wrong and tomorrow versus yesterday. Choose right versus wrong. Choose tomorrow versus yesterday."
Clinton said that Conway is the candidate offering a plan to create jobs and reduce the budget deficit. He said Republicans are interested in cutting taxes for the wealthy, which he said would increase the deficit.
Paul, a Bowling Green eye doctor, has made balancing the budget a central part of his campaign.
Clinton condemned the influx of millions in anonymous, special-interest money spent in Kentucky to bash Conway with ads "distorting what will really happen if you send him" to the Senate.
"Folks, don't be played," Clinton told the cheering crowd in Conway's hometown. The appearance was Clinton's second with Conway in a month.
Conway sounded the same theme, claiming that out-of-state money was spent to mischaracterize him.
"If they were proud of what they were saying, they would have told you who they were in the first place," said Conway, who himself has been criticized for running ads attacking Paul for alleged actions in college.
Paul, a tea party favorite, urged about 40 supporters at an airport in Worthington to encourage friends and neighbors to get out and vote.
The Republican said the tea party movement has energized his campaign and predicted a victory not just for himself, but for other conservative Republicans across the country.
"It's going on all across Kentucky, and it's going on all over America," Paul said.
Paul didn't mention Conway, jesting at one point that he had forgotten his opponent's name.
Conway and Paul crisscrossed Kentucky on Monday in their final push for votes ahead of Tuesday's election.
By the end of the day, Conway and Paul had made airport stops in every region of the state.
The two are running for the seat of retiring Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, who chose not to seek a third term.
Although Republicans are expected to fare well Tuesday, Conway claimed his race "is getting tighter by the minute."
"This thing can be won," Conway said in Lexington. "We're going to win it, but I need your help."
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