"Kansas suddenly emerges at center of fight for U.S. Senate"

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Kansas suddenly emerges at center of fight for U.S. Senate

by Mark Z. Barabak at the LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-kansas-senate-midterm-election-20140904-story.html

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The odds still favor a Republican takeover. The GOP needs to pick up six seats and appears halfway home, with likely wins in Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia. Of the remaining contests, all but two of the most competitive are being fought in states that President Obama lost in 2012.

As the two savaged one another, the well-to-do businessman and political independent Greg Orman filled the television airwaves with a flood of pox-on-both-their-houses advertising, suggesting he had little use for either major party -- a sentiment that neatly aligns with the disgust of many Kansas voters.

Sitting virtually on the sidelines was Democratic Senate hopeful Chad Taylor. A prosecutor in Topeka, he received little support from a state party keenly focused on beating GOP Gov. Sam Brownback, who is highly vulnerable for his own reasons, and defeating Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has made a national name for himself as an anti-illegal-immigration crusader.


Faced with little money and little party backing, Taylor abruptly pulled the plug on his candidacy just before Wednesday’s 5 p.m. deadline for candidates to submit their names for the November ballot.

Republicans have cried foul. Kobach, the state’s chief elections officer, said at a Thursday press conference that Kansas law requires that Taylor’s name remain on the ballot because he failed to follow the proper procedure for withdrawal.




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1. GOP’s Kansas nightmare

How a red state is on verge of unthinkable upsets!

Gov. Sam Brownback's and Sen. Pat Roberts' unpopularity could yield huge Dem wins -- in the most unlikely of states.

link

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2. October surprise baby....

mark my words....

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3. "The odds still favor a Republican takeover."

Uhm, yeah. Not so much, really, LA Times. But you've got papers to sell and eyeballs to attract, so you have to pretend there's a horse race going on. Turnout will be key, but the Democrats will retain control of the Senate.