[Impy]

"Congressman Todd Tiahrt from the Wichita area, has not ruled out such a campaign and has been traveling the state recently to raise his profile outside his south-central Kansas district. "An open Senate seat will draw a lot of interest, and my feeling is Kansas will not have two senators from the same congressional district," Tiahrt said Friday, a reference to Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, who also represented western Kansas before ascending to the Senate."

Oh no, I hate regional BS. 2 conservatives from anywhere please.

[Clintonfatigued]

“Oh no, I hate regional BS.”

Regional is very important. Everyone has local biases to one degree or another. In fact, the main reason that Andy Harris lost in Maryland was because he was from suburban Baltimore, and the Eastern Shore voters wanted one of their own (and their candidate campaigned as a conservative Democrat).