Posted on 10/25/2014 8:12:58 AM PDT by cotton1706
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) -- After lifting the spirits of Kansas Democrats eager to oust conservative Republican Gov. Sam Brownback over his aggressive tax-cutting experiment, challenger Paul Davis appears to be losing ground as the state's GOP loyalties and a hail of negative television ads take their toll.
The closely watched race has begun moving in the incumbent's favor since the Republican Governors Association began bombarding television viewers with spots focused on how Davis was caught as a young attorney in a strip club during a 1998 meth raid. An officer reported finding Davis in a back room with a woman wearing only a G-string, a long-ago embarrassment that Republicans have used to question Davis' judgment.
Other political forces - including the GOP's 20 percentage-point advantage in voter registration - also are at work. Independent polling in August and September showed Davis leading - at one point by as many as 10 percentage points - but more recently showed the race tied or with Brownback slightly ahead.
Davis said he doubts Brownback's reported gains are real. Both camps have said they expected the race to tighten just before the Nov. 4 election.
The bespectacled Davis often comes across as a cautious policy wonk, and he's yet to outline many specific proposals for cleaning up what he portrays as the fiscal mess created by Brownback's efforts to make Kansas more business-friendly.
Kansas has a history of electing Democrats when GOP governors become unpopular; the minority party has won five of the last 10 races. But Democratic bids to woo disaffected Republicans often fall short after showing early promise.
The GOP label is a powerful advantage.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Surely the Democrats can come up with some bald-faced lies to scream out in negative ads.
They would rather use illegals
KS people may do the right thing, and then maybe not.
If the race is suddenly turning on the matter of one of the candidates being in a strip club nearly 20 years ago, I find with myself with a fairly low opinion of the Kansas electorate.
In a state where Obama’s approval is at 31%, as a politician, it really hurts to be characterized as an Obama ass wipe. That is the main reason I believe both Davis and Orman will lose.
You’re obviously not following this race very closely, are you?
Have a great weekend..
And yet Rasmussen, with a clear GOP house effect, on Friday had Brownback losing 52-44.
Get back to me on Nov 5.
Perhaps it has more to do with Davis’ support for, and support from, the Liberal Judge (or judges) in Wichita that overturned the death sentence of the 2 brothers who raped, robbed, and shot and left naked in a snowy field to die, 5 or 6 people who were having celebration of a couple’s engagement. Of course, that was almost 10 years ago...
(The one survivor was a women who was shot and walked 1/2 mile across a snowy field at night to the nearest home. She would not let the homeowners call the police until she told them the story. Afraid she would die before the police arrived.)
Perhaps it has to do with general revulsion with the policies of the Democrats and the Big Zero.
And Debbie Downer...LibtardHO chimes in with the fake bad news.
Oh look! Concern Troll cites the recently-leftist-acquired Rassmussen poll company, to spread his message of doom! Concern Troll has NO PLACE posting on Free Republic.
Off to work you go.
Shilling for the DNC
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Nice tag line
Always happy to see a democrat losing ground—none of them shoudl be in office in the first place.
Always happy to see a democrat losing ground—none of them should be in office in the first place.
Rasmussen’s latest poll has Davis up by 7. But even if he wins he’s facing a conservative legislature that isn’t going to be chomping at the bit to undo Brownback’s changes.
Sometimes I wonder what is in the water in the MidWest.
I wish folks would wake up and see that their father’s Democrat Party does not exist anymore, but has been taken over by the Communist Party USA.
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