Kentucky Race May Roil GOP

• By Erin P. Billings and John Stanton
• Roll Call Staff
• Oct. 9, 2008, Midnight

With polling in Kentucky suddenly showing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) in a dead heat with Democratic upstart Bruce Lunsford, Senate Republicans are privately starting to worry their leader could be knocked off and have begun contemplating what their leadership might look like in his absence.