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 ...
Absolutely. Not only should they be executed, their family should be handed a bill for the oxygen that these scums consumed during their lives.
This has got to help Pat Roberts fortunes. I’m not crazy about Roberts, but after the recent revelations of Orman’s ties to the Soros family, I’d rather see a one-eyed crack whore win than him.
Correct — I know about the Senate race, but this article is the first one I’ve read on the Governor race. This early sentence was the basis for my comment:
“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.”
Ouch. You had better put some ice on that, Wendy.
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