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.
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.