In Kentucky, Democratic pollster PublicPolicyPolling has a surprising result. From the firm’s Twitter account:
Libertarian candidate for State Treasurer in Kentucky polling at 16%- that says something about voter disgust right now.
The number is remarkable for a third party campaign with weak fundraising relative to its major party opponents. However, it is worth noting that support for minor party candidates traditionally collapses at the ballot box. Only two third party candidates are running for statewide office in Kentucky in 2011: Independent Gatewood Galbraith for Governor and Libertarian Ken Moellman for Treasurer. Both races feature three candidates, and PPP is sure to have polled both. The pollster has not yet revealed the horserace numbers or the crosstabs.
Another Twitter post from PPP notes that Senator Rand Paul, son of former Libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul, has higher approval ratings than Senator Mitch McConnell. Moellman had a small role in that race last cycle, clarifying the neutrality of the Libertarian Party in that race in his role as state party chairman.
You can find Moellman’s campaign website here.
Ken – do you support reducing the size, scope and power of government at all levels and on all issues, and oppose increasing the size, scope and power of government at any level, for any purpose?
If so, would you be interested in a possible endorsement from the BTP?
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Great work Ken. I and I am sure others appreciate the effort.
I saw Gatewood is at 10% for gov, so there may be more people than usual breaking the duopoly habit…
FYI – follow various media on the campaign through the campaign website: http://ken4ky.com/ken_media
We don’t post every link out there; just the sources we can.
The cool thing is the crosstabs show we’re drawing almost equally across the spectrum.
And yes, I’ve heard all the jokes about my name — long before the Simpsons ever came about.
We’ve gone from 5% in early June, to 16% in late August. That’s 11 points in 2 months. Everyone else is stagnant in the KY polls in all 2011 races.
And, what we saw in KY is that 7% turns into 5% in a close race, on election day. This race isn’t even close, so we hope to hold on to most of those gains, and keep building on them.
“Ken’s a great guy, and a much better representative for LPKY than that Landham character was a few years back.”
This is for sure.
Ken’s a great guy, and a much better representative for LPKY than that Landham character was a few years back.
Telephone polling?
If his name is pronounced “Mole-man” – it might have given him some extra Simpsons character bump. :-/