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I was afraid that McDonald and Oliphant would split the vote in the 3rd district and that turns out to be what happened. Still this should tip the board back to the moderates and sanity.

I should point out that this has all happened before. Conservatives took over the board and introduced creationism and then in the next election the moderates took it back. But just two years later the creationists came back and took control again. This battle isn't over. It'll continue in 2008 and 2010 and 2012...

In Kansas, they're waking up to this kind of TV news: Evolution opponents lose control of Kansas Board of Education. Excerpt:

Conservative Republicans who brought international attention to Kansas by approving academic standards calling evolution into question lost control of the state school board in primaries.
As a result of the vote, board members and candidates who believe evolution is well-supported by evidence will have a 6-4 majority. Evolution skeptics had entered the election with a 6-4 majority.
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The most closely watched race was in western Kansas, where incumbent conservative Connie Morris lost her GOP primary to Sally Cauble. Both are former educators, but Morris had described evolution as ``an age-old fairy tale'' and ``a nice bedtime story'' unsupported by science.
Critics of Kansas' science standards worried that if conservatives retained the board's majority, it would lead to attempts in other states to copy the Kansas standards.
``There are people around the country who would like to see the Kansas standards in their own states,'' said Eugenie Scott, director of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, Calif., which supports the teaching of evolution.
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