Sarah Palin, Howard Dean weigh in on Ky. race

USA Today On Politics: Sarah Palin, Howard Dean weigh in on Ky. race
Kentucky voters go to the polls tomorrow in what has been a little-noticed election outside the state. But Sarah Palin and Howard Dean are out to change all that.

Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, recently endorsed Republican Todd P'Pool in his bid to be Kentucky attorney general. Dean, the former Democratic National Committee chairman and presidential candidate, is behind Jack Conway, who wants a second term in the job.

On her Facebook page, Palin calls P'Pool "a new conservative leader for Kentucky" and hails him as someone ready to "take on entrenched special interests."

Dean, who ran for president in 2004, blasted P'Pool in an e-mail last week for a "smear campaign" against Conway, according to Insight Cable News.

P'Pool accused Conway of covering up a drug investigation into his brother. Conway responded with his own ad saying he told his brother, Matt, to "take responsibility" for his actions.

The marquee race in Kentucky, by the way, is for governor. Democratic incumbent Steve Beshear is expected to easily defeat Republican David Williams. Beshear has a commanding 25-percentage point lead over Williams, according to a recent poll by the Louisville Courier-Journal and WHAS-TV.