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I don't know what's happening in Kansas, but I can tell you what many pundits missed in the Cantor/Bratt primary. Cantor had plenty of money, but Bratt was not too vulnerable as a political newcomer. In other words, Bratt hadn't been around enough to become dirty. Cantor, on the other hand, had been around and he had a few scars that he wanted to hide. He was also overly fond of life in DC and tended to ignore the folks that he needed to send him there.

What it came down to, was that Cantor had to go negative on Bratt, and he used a huge amount of money to paint Bratt as a lib college professor who worked with Dems on a commission to raise VA income taxes.

The problem was that there were many outlets that called foul on this tactic, mainly because it wasn't true. The miscalculation that Cantors team made was that every time one of these dishonest ads were run, it would piss off the folks that were paying attention and make it more likely that they would go to the polls and express their displeasure.

In a general election there would be enough low information voters to cover this fault as most would vote for Cantor because they voted for him last time. But in a primary, the low info voters don't show, so it mostly the folks that care that vote and that's why Cantors polls were so lopsided verses the reality when they counted the votes in the box.

I don't know if the Roberts race has anything in common with the Cantor/Bratt race, but if it doesn't, I wouldn't expect the same result.

“I don’t know if the Roberts race has anything in common with the Cantor/Bratt race, but if it doesn’t, I wouldn’t expect the same result.”

The race in Kansas has some similarities to the Cantor/Bratt race. The latest thing to happen of any import is that Roberts is running ads stating that Wolfe is now under investigation for by the state medical review board (or whatever they call it there) because he posted patient x-rays online and made comments on them several years ago. Not a bright move.