Mongiardo Internal Shows Big Lead
KY LG Daniel Mongiardo (D) has a big lead over his main Dem rival, according to a new poll conducted for Mongiardo's campaign.
The poll, conducted by Garin-Hart-Yang, surveyed 655 Dem primary voters between Feb. 2-4 for a margin of error of +/- 3/9%. Mongiardo was tested against AG Jack Conway (D), law student Darlene Price (D) and farmer Maurice Sweeney (D).
Primary Election Matchup (W/leaners)Mongiardo 43
Conway 25
Price 2
Sweeney 1
Mongiardo and Conway waged a fierce primary campaign over most of '09, and insiders made it pretty obvious they preferred Conway to emerge from the May 18 primary. Most major Dems in the state back Conway, while Mongiardo was caught on tape badmouthing his most prominent ally, Gov. Steve Beshear (D).
Conway has raised more money, banking $1.7M through the end of the year to Mongiardo's $782K. But Mongiardo has a name recognition advantage residual from his '04 run against Sen. Jim Bunning (R). That year, Mongiardo narrowly lost a race that was much closer than expected.
The polling memo, released by Mongiardo's campaign, touts Mongiardo's lead over Conway among men and women, among liberals, moderates and conservatives and in every media market except Conway's Louisville base.
Update: Conway's campaign fires back: "Our campaign is clearly in the best position to win the Democratic nomination in May with nearly $1 million more on hand and a stronger campaign organization -- not to mention a message of creating jobs, cutting the deficit, and bringing accountability to Washington, which is resonating with Kentuckians from Greenup County to Graves County," said Allison Haley, Conway's spokesperson.
Haha, okay! Big Al Haley's just cold making things up now. Stronger campaign organization? What's that include, a network? Nope, just media buys. They think their "organization" is the amount of fans they have on Facebook. Bizarre spin. Sorry Big Al. Your BS is as see-through as Jack Conway himself. I got a new slogan for you: "Transparent, but not in the way you'd think."
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