Ashley Judd may need to decide soon on Senate race

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — As Democrats encourage actress Ashley Judd to jump into Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race and Republicans take every opportunity to call her a Hollywood liberal, a University of Kentucky political scientist says Judd is nearing a deadline to make a decision.

“If she doesn’t declare herself in the next 10 days, I think she will have already made a very serious mistake,” political scientist Ernie Yanarella said Tuesday. “She has to define herself, before she gets defined by those who are her opponents.”