Posted on 10/09/2014 12:02:17 PM PDT by centurion316
It's hard to overstate how worried national Republican operatives have been about the Senate race here in Kansas. "I think Pat Roberts is in real trouble," a GOP strategist who is deeply involved in the midterm effort said of the Republican incumbent Tuesday morning. "If the election were today, he would clearly lose."
That was then. Now, just 48 hours later, two new polls suggest the Roberts campaign has life in it, after all, and that Roberts' opponent, the former Democrat and self-styled Independent businessman Greg Orman, may no longer be leading the race.
One of the new surveys, by CNN, has Roberts leading Orman by a single point, 49 percent to 48 percent. That's the barest of margins, but still striking in light of several polls before it, by NBC/Marist, CBS/New York Times, and USA Today, which all had Orman leading Roberts by five to 10 points. Another new poll, by Fox News, has Roberts ahead of Orman by five — in contrast to the last Fox survey, in mid-September, which showed Orman up by six.
The Roberts campaign believes the new polls reflect a growing enthusiasm they have sensed during the senator's recent campaign appearances. Maybe that's real, and maybe it's not; the polls could be outliers or somehow non-representative. Still, for strategists on both sides of the race, the results suggest something is happening to shake up the Kansas race.
The new numbers came just a few hours after Roberts and Orman met Wednesday afternoon in a debate in this Kansas City suburb. The session covered the economy, energy, transportation, taxes, entitlements, and a number of other topics. But Orman made news by outlining an almost fantastical, removed-from-reality vision of how he hopes the United States Senate might work, were he elected to it.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
"Ted Cruz gives dreaded tea party stamp of approval to Pat Roberts "
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/yael-t-abouhalkah/article2533081.html#storylink=cpy
Sarah Palin went to Kansas
Orman is a rich Democrap who, if elected, will caucus with the Democraps.
"Sarah Palin tries to unite Kansas Republicans behind Pat Roberts"
http://www.kshb.com/news/political/roberts-courts-tea-party-support-with-palin-visit
Sounds like he could be an obama appointee.
I doubt that is yet to be reflected in the polls, so the numbers ought to be even better when the Cruz effect shows up. Orman’s interaction with Byron York showed what an empty suit he really is.
It’s “OK, Sarah, we don’t trust the GOPe or Roberts, but we trust you, so we’ll support Roberts.”
CBS is probably an outlier as evidenced by other polls AND it is paired with the routinely horrible YouGov.
Orman’s “independent” mask is slipping. He totally messed up when he essentially came out as pro-amnesty.
Whoa! That is impossible in the non-conservative state of Kansas you keep describing.
It’s a combination of things. Having positive rallies from multiple high profile figures like Palin coming to town has re-energized a divided GOP base after a bruising primary - that and time has probably helped - the further you get away from the primary, the more Republicans are “coming home” - especially as more is known about the “independent” Orman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlLw5-obItE&list=UUp7_3Je4VtJODR1HL2xXhGw&index=1
These ads Roberts’ campaign is running aren’t too bad, either.
If he wouldn’t dodge the question of who he will caucus with, he would drop 2-3% points easily. Slimy bastard.
Interesting further in the article - looks like he would hold either caucus hostage if he were the deciding vote - Lisa Murkowski as majority leader to be with the Republicans, and Heidi Heitkamp to side with the Democrats...if that’s even to be believed to be any other than just a ploy avoid answering the question.
The Cruz effect!
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