If my posts seem a little slow to be updated that is because I am enjoying the NCAA basketball tournaments beginning today.
You see, I am thrilled to belong to one of the two most popular groups of people in Kentucky right now.
Those named "Marcus" and those named "Cousins".
GO BIG BLUE!
It's nice to see that POLITICO has the good sense to correct its errors. But just in case you clicked the link in my earlier article and think I've lost my mind, since the problems I posted about have now been corrected, here is a screen shot of the article as it appeared "BEFORE" I published my post, and the way it now appears "AFTER" I published my article.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I rest my case.
The astounding lead given to Rand Paul by the release of data from Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies pales by comparison to the incredible apology the company issued for releasing results which they admit are "obviously not accurate" since their question did not include Bill Johnson and other candidates.
Now the question becomes, what will the numbers be if the other candidates are included?
Stay tuned. We told you polling was coming soon, and were the first to get you this result, raise questions about its accuracy and show you the details of who was conducting the poll.
Just tell you friends and neighbors about the BluegrassBulletin and remind them: If you don't read Bluegrassbulletin.com every day, you might as well be living in the dark.
If any of you have been wondering where I've been, why I've not been blogging or what was going on, well let me fill you in. Pick up a copy of this month's Field and Stream and read the cover story. That's what I've been doing.
The magazine features a fella named Marty Meierotto as "The Last Mountain Man". Marty is a wilderness trapper in Alaska, and a good friend of my buddy Al Dubord, a Canadian French trapper from the upper peninsula of Michigan who has been living in the bush and trapping in Alaska for 30 years.
I was with Al this past week doing the same things described in the "Field and Stream" article. In fact, Al was showing me some photos of his recent trip on on the trap line with Marty, just before I left Anchorage Alaska yesterday morning for the grueling air trip home.
We traveled about 150 miles out of Anchorage by truck to the Alaskan interior. Then we went another 45 miles by snow machine (snowmobile to lower 48 types) into the wilderness using a series of lakes and rivers as our highways. We hunkered down in a trap line cabin and traveled another 50 miles or so farther into the interior, up a major river checking traps, setting traps and enjoying life on the edge.
I'm home now, for a while, before setting out again on another adventure. It might take me a day or two to shake off the jet lag, catch up on the trivia (aka news) and begin my routine of analysis, commentary and radio broadcasts. But stay tuned, these little survival trips keep me edgy and sharpen my senses.
I'm back. Thanks for checking in. Keep it up.
In reporting on the campaigns of Trey Grayson and Rand Paul I have tried to focus on the smart moves and the dumb moves in their strategies. I have tried to leave most of the discussion of issues, principles etc. to the candidates.
So in following the campaigns from time to time I run across something which makes me scratch my head. This was one of those things.
The Grayson campaign has paid for advertising on a national blog service which has to cost them some serious money. The problem with this is that these blogs don't reach very many Kentucky GOP voters, and without the national name ID that Rand Paul enjoys due to his father's network of supporters, Grayson isn't likely to attract much in the way of contributions by this strategy either.
Money will become a precious thing in the last weeks of the campaign. Spending it now in this fashion causes me to ask: What is Trey Thinking?
And along the way let me put in this plug for myself. There are some very highly read blogs in Kentucky on both the left and the right. We reach thousands upon thousands of Kentuckians every week. Why would candidates not advertise inside Kentucky? I'd say they'd get considerably more bang for their buck.
THIS PROJECT
