Kentucky

Three-quarters of the votes in Kentucky's 3rd District are now in, and Republican incumbent Anne Northup still trails Democrat John Yarmuth by three points. Another bad, bad sign for the GOP's prospects nationally. -- Steve Kornacki

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From the NYT Mag ARTICLE with those pics:  read more »

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We've written a fair amount here about whether this type of thing (from the Lexington Herald-Leader) works:

Urban County Councilman Bill Farmer Jr. went on the attack in a TV commercial with partisan overtones. It compares corporate attorney Jim Newberry to Democratic U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton.

In the 30-second ad, airing on all three major network affiliates, Newberry is labeled as a "liberal Democrat," while Farmer is called a "conservative." The race is ostensibly non-partisan.

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The ad says that the Hillary Clinton-like plan created by the task force "increased the price of health care, covered fewer people and drove doctors and jobs out of Kentucky. We can't afford Jim Newberry and Hillary Clinton's ideas."

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Farmer's ad also features trick photography, Rabold said, pointing out that it begins with a shot of Newberry standing behind a podium with a picture of Clinton, a heart and the word "Hillary."

The footage of Newberry at the podium was from last month's forum at the University of Kentucky, but the picture of Clinton was not on the podium, Rabold said.

- Tom McGeveran

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"Imagine my surprise the other day," said an op-ed by Army reserve officer Phillip Carter in yesterday's New York Times, "when I received orders to report to Fort Campbell, Ky., next Sunday."

Apparently, someone did imagine Carter's surprise. Today brings a follow-up Editors' Note:  read more »

"The Op-Ed page in some copies of Wednesday's newspaper carried an incorrect version of the below article about military recruitment. The article also briefly appeared on NYTimes.com before it was removed. The writer, an Army reserve officer, did not say, 'Imagine my surprise the other day when I received orders to report to Fort Campbell, Ky., next Sunday,' nor did he characterize his recent call-up to active duty as the precursor to a 'surprise tour of Iraq.' That language was added by an editor and was to have been removed before the article was published. Because of a production error, it was not. The Times regrets the error."

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