File under: Duh.

Jack Conway’s campaign just sent out a blanket email earlier today announcing the $1.325 million his apparatus has raised during this first quarter of fundraising season. Sure, the figure is notable for a couple of reasons (it’s apparently the largest amount raised by a candidate in Kentucky history; it triples the amount raised by his Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo, and more than doubles the amount collected by KY secretary of state/Republican cyborg Trey Grayson; it’s a huge fucking number), but it’s a painfully obvious conclusion to draw when you consider two things.

Namely, the Commonwealth’s liberal blogosphere is virtually united behind the dashing AG, therefore securing his web supremacy for what will probably be a heated and ugly primary, conducted in true Kentucky fashion. (Fancy Farm will certainly host a hot one this year…)

It also doesn’t hurt Conway’s chances that Mongiardo is a baggage-laden ass clown whose participation in an increasingly disliked gubernatorial administration can only render futile any attempt the latter might undertake toward repackaging himself as something other than a baggage-laden ass clown. As PageOne hath noted, even Eastern Kentucky — Mongiardo’s hometurf — knows this: They gave Conway nearly $125,000. And these are people who can smell a carpetbagger from a mile off.

So what does it all mean? Nothing you didn’t already suspect, I guess, except that you’ll be seeing way more of Jack’s purdy mug on your digitally-transitioned TV sets than you will Lil’ Danny’s.