Posted on 08/04/2020 7:21:22 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Roger Marshall: 79,283 (37.5%)
Kris Kobach: 54,743 (25.9%)
Bob Hamilton: 41,331 (19.6%)
46% reporting
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Dan was wrong. Marshall is only a second-term RINO hack with a subpar record for a Conservative district. The left backed him to the hilt to get rid of his Conservative predecessor in the seat in 2016, Tim Huelskamp. If not Kobach, Huelskamp should’ve succeeded Sen. Roberts, not this cheap RINO hack.
Precedent, doesn’t mean much.
Brownback baggage, significant, but still, he got a pathetic % of the vote and lost by 5 points even with Orman taking from the rat. Coyler would have won.
Hamilton is a moneybags who wanted to buy a seat, he didn’t waste his own money to help someone else.
I do believe the GOP wanted Hamilton OUT because they felt Kobach would surely lose 1 on 1.
Thanks.
Voted for Kobach.
County commissioner and local sheriff.
He has been down on the border running interference for the construction companies from liberal legal attacks and helping crack the whip on the fence construction.
Just like every place else, we have to damn many liberals here. DuH!
I disagree, precedent is an often excellent indicator. In the KS Governor’s race, most especially so. Jeff Colyer, had he prevailed or even been unopposed in the GOP primary, would likely have lost in the general for virtually the same reasons as Kobach. I’d give Kobach extra points for having the guts to run such an uphill race knowing the dynamics and the baggage put on him. People that call him a loser should pull their heads out of their ass. I don’t run down our best and brightest people 100% on our side.
I find it unlikely that Colyer couldn’t have done 5 points better than a controversial candidate that got slaughtered in Jefferson County.
The Governorship, sad but big deal if you don’t live there. But I’m sorry you don’t risk a US Senate in Kansas with a guy that just lost statewide (and ran behind the rest of the ticket when he won in 2014).
His talents should be used in some other manner. Like helping us fight fraud in this Presidential election.
And precedent means a lot, until it’s gone and then means it dick because the underlying actual reasons for it didn’t apply this time, Pennsylvania One Term Corbett.
If Brownback wasn’t so massively unpopular I don’t think See you next thursday would have had much of a change even against Kobach.
No, Colyer was directly saddled with the baggage and negativity attached to Brownback’s governance as his Lieutenant. He was not a bad guy, but he couldn’t have overcome the situation. The Demonrats and KS “Moderate” (leftist) RINOs were determined to see a Dem get the office. Virtually no Republican could’ve kept the office.
Remember, though, some candidates can get shellacked one year and come back again a short time later. Look at the example of Susan Collins running for Governor of Maine in 1994. She performed so poorly in a GOP year that she didn’t even make it to 2nd place. Yet in a BAD GOP year in 1996, she comes back and cinches a Senate seat.
BTW, I see Jeff Colyer’s appointed Lieutenant took the nomination for Marshall’s seat (when I saw the name, I thought it was a woman). Hopefully it will be a marked improvement. Too bad Huelskamp didn’t come back for the seat Marshall stole from him.
Female Traceys are usually spelled without the E I think.
Ah, but Corbett became quite unpopular over the Penn State fallout, and that gave the GOP ample opportunity to replace him and hold the office with someone else. He refused to budge and became the first Gubernatorial incumbent defeated since Democrat William Bigler in 1854 (160 years) (note that from 1878 until 1970/74, an incumbent couldn’t run for a second consecutive term, however).
I never said precedents can’t be broken, especially if there is a scenario that alters the dynamics (such as an unpopular incumbent or nominee).
Remember that in KS, Gov. Bill Graves, a RINO, left office ostensibly quite popular, but the brutal GOP primary to succeed him, which resulted in Conservative State Treasurer Tim Shallenburger (who had just won the office with 62% statewide 4 years earlier — a no-brainer to win in a GOP year of 2002 with the Wellstone Funerally fresh in the minds of the public), still saw him lose by an even wider 8% to far-left Kathleen Gilligan Sebelius (who unlike Kelly, actually got a majority of the vote — 53%). Tim Shallenburger got only 2% more of the vote than Kobach did.
When Brownback won in 2010, he was the first non-leftist Republican Governor elected in Kansas since (at least) 1964 or longer. That was a precedent-breaking election in that regard.
Also, apparently 4 RINO State Senators lost renomination according to the NY Slimes page. Unfortunately, that didn’t include the very worst of the bunch, John Doll, who was the most left-wing Senator in the entire body at one point and ran with Orman as the Lt Governor nominee in ‘18. He switched to Independent, but switched back last year. That should’ve been a no-brainer to dump a guy to the left of the Bolshevik RINO bitch turned Demonrat Barbara Bollier, now running against former fellow RINO Marshall.
I dunno, I’ve seen it both ways. I had a childhood g/f named that, and I believe she spelled it with an “E.”
Always a spoiler
Apparently kansas aint that conservative.
I support whoever won. Voted for Hamilton. Just not into Kobach.
I also voted for Sarah Hart Weir over Mike Beehler and Amanda Adkins. I’ll vote Adkins in general as she won my congressional GOP race.
If solid red Kansas can’t figure out that establishment RINO is not the way to go then F Kansas. F the GOP.
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