By AP
Bowling Green, KY – Republican U-S Senate candidate Rand Paul suggests poor Americans are "enormously better off than the rest of the world," citing an old Cold War film that showed even impoverished homes had color TVs. Paul's recent remarks at his first forum with Democratic opponent Jack Conway stirred some anger in poor pockets of the Commonwealth, where as many as a third of the residents live in poverty. According to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau figures, Kentucky was tied for second nationally with just over 17% of its residents living below the poverty level in the last year.