Emily Daniel, a 26-year-old 2008 Barack Obama supporter, is not the kind of voter that Democrat Jack Conway can afford to lose in his scorched-earth Senate race in which he trails in the polls. But Daniel, who works in the Shelby County Courthouse and is married to a farmer, is reluctantly voting for Tea Party favorite Rand Paul.
A major reason for her ideological zigzag is the vicious Conway ad (maybe the roughest of Campaign 2010) that accuses Paul of worshipping in his college days a false god named "Aqua Buddha." As she explains, "I really thought it crossed the line."
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