Election Focuses On Other Issues

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Kentucky voters have plenty of decisions other than their choice for president when they head to the polls Tuesday. They’ll also choose U.S. congressmen, state lawmakers, local judges and prosecutors and whether to make hunting a constitutional right. The effort to make hunting a constitutional right is backed by the National Rifle Association, which has pushed similar measures in 12 other states as a way to stop any possible effort in the future to ban hunting. However, some say there's no need for the amendment because there is no threat to do away with hunting or fishing rights. Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes says state legislative races, not the matchup between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, will be the key reason for what she predicts will be a record turnout. Early absentee voting is on par with the 2008 presidential election, when about 64 percent of Kentucky’s 3 million voters turned out. Last week, Grimes said, about 73,000 voters had cast absentee ballots or were in the process of doing so.