Hes ahead. Wake up. Kansas Republicans fear defeat in 2018 congressional race

[herding cats]

The KFC bucket came with a side of Republican panic.

Anxiety over the GOP's weakened grasp on Kansas’ 2nd congressional district, which includes Topeka and Lawrence, was on full display during last month’s state party convention.

GOP Rep. Lynn Jenkins is retiring. Republicans lack a clear front runner in the race to replace her, while Democrats have coalesced around Paul Davis, a former state lawmaker who won the district during his unsuccessful campaign for governor in 2014.

"If the election were held today, (there's) a 70 percent chance Davis gets elected,” Mike Stieben, co-chair of Kansans For Life’s political action committee, told the crowd at a convention prayer breakfast.

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This is a seat we flipped in 2006. It’s quite possibly flippable for us in 2018. 🌊

[riversedge]

1. long way to NOV but cautiously optimistic

[herding cats]

6. Very true, and they know theyre behind and working to GOTV.

We need to be just as vigilant and do the same in all these flippable districts.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. There is a danger people will think their vote is not needed given the blue tsunami talked

about everywhere.

NO

YOUR VOTE is needed even if you live in a deep blue place.

Obviously it is needed in places like this Kansas election. I wish I could help you GOTV

[dalton99a]

4. The GOP welcomes such talk

Yes, GOTV.

[Hortensis]

3. The heart of Koch country. Go, Davis!

[workinclasszero]

5. It would be a beautiful thing for a democrat to win

in the damned Koch bros backyard!

[Fred Sanders]

8. The heart of Christian extremism and xenophobia...all played to by politicians.

[Hortensis]

10. Well, Kansas has all kinds, like other states.

The Kochs style themselves libertarian, which they probably imagine makes them sound more principled than just run-of-the-mill unvarnished callousness and greed would.

I think they've mostly developed an anti-government, anti-tax fervor in vulnerable voters that's turned Kansas government into a study of what doesn't work, though of course they're always happy to harness religious and xenophobic energies to their ends as well.

[MoonRiver]

7. Lawrence is definitely doable..

Topeka will be harder but the rage against Rethugs is palpable, so I think the district will flip!

[LAS14]

9. Yoo Hoo!!!!!! nt