“In a year when early analysis showed Republicans having a definite edge, the fight for the Senate could come down to a Republican-held state that nobody expected to even be close. In Kentucky, the prospect of defeating incumbent Jim Bunning has Democrats all worked up.” (Washington Post)
The article goes on to detail Bunning’s history of bizarre and erratic behavior behind Democratic innuendoes that he is demented (in the clinical sense; not just name-calling). Republicans counter with homophobic smears about his Democratic challenger.
