Posted on 04/11/2017 8:30:25 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
Kansas state Treasurer Ron Estes held off a stronger-than-expected challenge from Democratic civil rights attorney James Thompson Tuesday night as the GOP won the first special congressional election since President Trump's inauguration.
The election was held to fill the House seat vacated by CIA Director Mike Pompeo, a former three-term representative of Kansas' 4th district.
With 94 percent of the precincts reporting, Estes had won 52 percent of the vote to 46 percent for Thompson. The Republican's margin was just under 6,500 votes. By contrast, Pompeo's narrowest victory, in 2014, was by just under 70,000 votes.
The race had been closely watched nationally for signs of a backlash against Republicans or waning support from Trump voters in a reliably Republican district. Trump won 60 percent of the votes cast in the 17-county congressional district this past November.
The president himself entered the fray Monday with a recorded get-out-the-vote call on Estes' behalf.
Estes supported Trump last year and backs the president's policies. He supports the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, backs funding for a wall on the border with Mexico, opposes funding for Planned Parenthood, and does not believe an independent investigation into Russian hacking of the election is needed.
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In November, over 250,000 turned out to vote in the 4th District and Pompeo (incumbent) won by a margin of 61-30. Last night only about 120,000 came out to vote - less than half the November turnout.
This reminded me of the special election in Massachusetts when Scott Brown upset the Democrat and captured the “Kennedy” seat. After the Obama victory, Republicans and anti-Obama Independents were energized and got behind Scott Brown like he was the messiah, even though he was a run-of-the-mill RINO. Many Democrats voters sat out that election, still savoring the Obama victory and not believing that a Republican could possibly win a statewide race in Massachusetts.
We dodged a bullet last night in Kansas. Hopefully we all realize that our work is far from done. In order for Trump to have a chance of his agenda being passed, we cannot afford to look past special elections. A GOP loss in Kansas last night would have been devastating.
Snowflakes melting down. Leftist ideologuee heads exploding. Whining.
It was a special election with low turnout. About 120,000 votes were cast yesterday. Last November it was closer to 280,000.
And why is Gov. Brownback (supposedly) so unpopular?
No supposedly to it; Brownback's approval is in the toilet. Six years ago he passed deep tax cuts with the usual promise that it would create thousands of jobs and generate higher revenues. Well it didn't. Kansas has had large deficits ever since and the cuts have gotten deeper and deeper into popular programs like education, transportation, and the like.
While channeling surfing the radio yesterday afternoon, I happened to hear NPR talking about this race. The left loses again, good news.
52-46 for a rat is a mandate
The MSM and the Dems (what's the diff?) were chomping at the bit to blast the news 24/7 of a Dem winning that seat.
They didn't.
They really didn't even come close.
And that point needs to be driven home to Tom Perez and the people who backed him - Slow Joe foremost - over Imam Ellison.
Hawk! Chalk!
...you know the rest
52-46 is not that close
I’d add: Hahahahahaaaasaaaaaaa.
The DNC media was concern trolling the public with fake polls claiming the Republican might lose.
6% sounds good but it is closer then it should have been. It should serve as a warning. This needs to be scrutinized very closely.
Election facts & results, Kansas, 4th Congressional District: vote totals, Republican, 63,505, Democrat, 55,310, Margin of Republican victory, 8,475 votes. Eight percent Republican victory. Counties won by Republican, eighteen out of nineteen, Sedgwick County, the lone Democrat county victory was razor thin in margin, Democrats,41,293, Republicans, 39,419, a margin of victory of 2,174 votes!!! Note: if this had been a regularly scheduled election, the Republican victory would have been massive!!! End of story!!!
“No supposedly to it; Brownback’s approval is in the toilet. Six years ago he passed deep tax cuts with the usual promise that it would create thousands of jobs and generate higher revenues. Well it didn’t. Kansas has had large deficits ever since and the cuts have gotten deeper and deeper into popular programs like education, transportation, and the like. “
I just don’t understand this drumbeat about how unpopular Brownback. The MSM was pronouncing his high level of unpopularity in 2014 :
“Brownback purged his moderate enemies and built a nice little conservative empire for himself. However, failing in the polls and seeing members of his own party backing his Democratic opponent; it is clear Brownback’s Conservative utopia is on the brink of collapse.”
http://mcimaps.com/sam-brownbacks-conservative-utopia-collapses-a-study-of-kansas-politics/
“The results (disastrous) have reduced the governor to making appearances at grim strip malls like this one in a desperate attempt to salvage his re-election bid.”
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-kansas-tea-party-disaster-20141023
“And now, a governor is in trouble — “
http://www.businessinsider.com/kansas-governor-race-sam-brownback-paul-davis-2014-10
And then after all that talk of Brownback being unpopular he wins by 4%.
http://www.politico.com/2014-election/results/map/governor/kansas/
Not if it's close enough for the Democrats to steal it. Isn't that right, Sen. Coleman?
He won by 22 points four years before. He won his first Senate race by 34 points and his second one by 31 points. And in 2016 his supporters over 30 seats in the legislature. I'd say his popularity dropped.
Exactly. My point is that even with all those disadvantages (being close with an unpopular governor, running a less-than-stellar campaign and so-called Dem enthusiasm) Congressman-elect Estes still won by a pretty decisive margin in a special election where turnout is always unpredictable. And the thing is that in 2018 during normal turnout, he'll probably win in a landslide.
That was a good lesson in reasoning you Dad helped you to understand. One you never forgot.
We can learn from everywhere, not just in a schoolroom, or from a teacher.
From my experience, this state has seemed to have low turnout in off year elections. That’s why I hate leftist ballot measures in off year elections because they know there will be low turnouts. Then they can get all the government employees and dems to turn out and their leftist ballot measure has a chance. I’ve seen that far too often and don’t care for ballot measures to be in off year elections. This election was necessary but you could predict it would be low turnout because that is the norm for off years.
As for Brownback, we needed to have cuts in government along with the tax cuts for it to work properly and the moderates, dems, and the media fought hard for that not to happen. The people of Kansas can’t have it both ways if they want it to work. We have to learn to live within our means when it comes to government, but the libs, dems, moderates, and the local medias refuse to understand that and fight tooth and nail to keep it from happening.
We also have a judicial system out of control that thinks they can step in by judicial decree and force the taxpayers of Kansas to pay more for things, especially education. Where we waste so much money on having way too many districts and all the administration bureaucracy that goes with them. Our legislature is a co-equal branch of government and they need to tell the judicial branch where to go when they try to force their tyrannical will on the taxpayers of Kansas. Let the legislature do its job with what it has to work with responsibly instead of putting us in budget hell year after year.
On another note, I did see Jim Thompson already declared he will run in 2018 against Estes. I say good luck with that as the dems will not have the time and resources they had this go round, as they try to defend many more seats.
CGato
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