Posted on 09/03/2014 3:32:16 PM PDT by sunmars
Democrat Chad Taylor has dropped out of the Kansas Senate race, according to local reports, complicating Sen. Pat Roberts’s (R-Kan.) reelection fight.
ADVERTISEMENT Local outlet Kansas First News is reporting Taylor, the Shawnee County district attorney, said he submitted papers to withdraw himself from the ballot at 4:15 p.m. Central Time Wednesday, just 45 minutes before the deadline to exit the race.
The race is now a three-way battle between Roberts, independent Greg Orman and libertarian Randall Batson. Now, Taylor’s exit may create more of a headache for Roberts, who has emerged as surprisingly vulnerable in recent weeks, with multiple polls showing him holding just a single-digit lead in the race.
The GOP incumbent emerged from a contentious primary fight with his campaign coffers depleted and his profile in the state bruised due to a heavy focus from his primary opponent on questions of whether he actually lives in Kansas.
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Last election results:
Pat Roberts(R) 60%, Jim Slattery(D) 36%
So whats happening, how do you see things playing out?
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone. You may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost- John Quincy Adams
Yet here you are.
I agree with you, this doesn’t “complicate” anything for Roberts. If anything it will look to ordinary voters like inside politics gamesmanship. I just don’t see any groundswell building for a country club Republican masquerading as an “Independent” as a halfway house to becoming a Democrat. Especially in a Republican year with an unpopular Dem President. This guy must have a miniscule base.
Actual conservatives are exacting a price for these RINO players. It’s pretty quiet about it, but it’s starting to show. The margins are telling the story.
More people have seen the enemy Marxists, and discovered the RINO’s are involved in arming them. The UniParty has got to go.
Remember Mississippi.
These players need to lose for us to have a prayer for restoring the traditional Republican platform.
PPP has been the most accurate polling firm two cycles running now.
Not really. With McConnell in charge, who has said he'll restore the filibuster rule, and what with him voting to advance Reid's agenda... Some of us don't want liberal republicans in control of the Senate again.
We've seen what they did when they had control. Are there taxes that need raised? Gang of 8 or 14 anyone?
When the republicans get conservative, then they can have the senate.
But not until then.
/johnny
YOU are the ones who hide behind “principle”, which is code for “useful idiot”. Conservatives are finally showing some RESISTANCE to tyrants and the RINO’s who prop them up.
You show nothing so far as I can tell.
The first 4 years of his term, no. The last 2, yes.
Yel. Roberts has no chance at getting my vote.
Do you really think we have a chance in hell of taking back the SINate this year?
Yep........
At the minute we are looking at 52 seats and if if it goes really well maybe 2 more unless this one messes up.
I’d rather have he senate for the next 2 years than not because come 2016, the senate cycle is against the GOP and if Hillary rolls in 2016, then god knows how long the GOP will be out of it.
One thing that may figure in to this political calculus, and that is the fact that absent Taylor, Obama is taken out of the Democrat's weakness in the election. He would probably have been an albatross around Taylor's neck. Now Orman can run as an Independent (who will, if he wins, caucus with the Democrats like Sanders). Final analysis: Democrats win.
You a bettin’ man?
52R; 46D; 2I
Whadda’ ya’ say?
Someone wrote on this thread that Roberts is a bad candidate. Roberts has been in office for decades - he can't be but so bad of a candidate. A bad candidate is one like, uhmmm-uhmmm Akin or, let's see, oh yes, O'Donnell.
Anyway, the last time Kansas elected a senator of democrat persuasion was in the 1930s.
In a republican year, the odds of Roberts losing are small, but there is always a possibility.
An additional prediction - McConnell is going to win by 10 points and the usual suspects on this website will be gnashing their teeth, moaning and groaning, claiming that McConnell rigged the election, cheated and the democrat should have won because, by golly, only their opinion matters and their opinion is the only plausible one to think and all the others are abhorrent and unnatural.
None of them can think strategically, at all. Simple and small minded, they have no idea how controlling the Senate can enhance 2016 presidential politics. Passing a few bills that will force Obama to address and veto, can help drive issues in the 2016 race. This is one way to go over the heads of the media.
Unfortunately for you, you don’t have the final say in the matter. You get one simple vote, if your state has a senate contest and that’s it.
My prediction is that Roberts will be elected with over 58% of the vote.
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The GOPe is to blame for this mess. Pat Roberts should have retired the instant it was revealed he lives in Virginia. Now he’s vulnerable.””””
Franken lives in New York and nobody cares about that.
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