I give Sam Brownback a ton of credit for transforming the state - he beat moderate appointed Sen. Sheila Frahm (Bob Dole's replacement) to win his Senate seat and has led from the top as Governor.
In Topeka, the incumbent (a RINO-follower) won by 150 votes. She spent $284,000, at least, from the AFL-CIO and KNEA. Her campaign lit made her out to be a very hard-core conservative. Here’s her dilemma now: she had more than 150 Democrat cross-overs in her district. Now she’ll have to campaign in a general with a largely uninterested GOP base (as far as their opinion of her). I doubt that her “The first thing I’ll do is keep ObamaCare out of Kansas” mailer will help her much.