Sarah Palin

The Jefferson County Republican Party has already distributed three thousand tickets to tommorrow's event in Jeffersonville, Indiana with Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

Louisville-area Republicans have snapped up the tickets to the event taking place just across the Ohio River from their hometown. 25,000 total attendees are expected, and it appears a large contingent from Kentucky will be among them.

Jefferson County GOP chair Bradford Cummings said the Palin rally was a "huge event" for Louisville Republicans, and his organization was working to get "as many people as possible" to attend.

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While numbers in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race fluctuate sharply, the polling picture for the Presidential race in the Bluegrass Race remains a bit more consistent. The newest poll from Rasmussen Reports shows U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) holding a ten point lead over U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).

Rasmussen’s survey of 500 likely voters – conducted on Sept. 30 – finds McCain up 52 to 42 percent. 2 percent of respondents selected another candidate and 4 percent were undecided.

The firm’s last poll in Kentucky – from July - also gave the Senator from Arizona a ten point lead, though that one fell at 49 to 39 percent.

The latest data indicates 63 percent of respondents rate McCain as either “Very” or “somewhat” favorable compared to 49 percent saying the same of Obama. Few are undecided about the candidates as the inverse – those who rated the candidates “very” or “somewhat” unfavorable – found 51 percent of respondents held that opinion of Obama and just 35 percent of McCain.

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Local Republicans are vowing to send 1,000 tubes of lipstick to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in an effort to criticize him for recent comments the campaign of Republican nominee John McCain claim were a sexist attack on their vice presidential candidate.

After asserting McCain was not the candidate to bring “change” to Washington, D.C., Obama uttered the following remarks during a rally in Lebanon, Virginia earlier this week.

“That’s not change. That’s just calling the same thing something different,” said Obama. “You know, you can put lipstick on a pig - it’s still a pig.”

McCain’s campaign charged those remarks were an attack on Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, McCain’s Vice-Presidential nominee.