WHAT's the matter with Kansas???

[elleng]

Ted Cruz Wins Kansas Caucuses as 5 States Vote on ‘Super Saturday.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/us/politics/primary-elections.html?

[onehandle]

1. They're big fans of Canada. nt

[Cleita]

2. Good. In the end Ted Cruz can't be President. He's a Canadian. eom

[elleng]

5. Right, and I look forward to that litigation,

but until then?

[Cleita]

20. Somebody has got to do it before November.

In the meantime, if he win the primaries, the Repubs are going to be up the creek without a candidate if the courts decide he can't run for President. Makes me chuckle a little.

[elleng]

21. Right.

Of course they won't decide he can't RUN, just that he can't serve as POTUS, so it's up to someones with brains to detour his campaign.

[Windy]

3. Why are you surprised? Its Kansas....

Home of fundamentalist Christians who want to teach "intelligent design" in schools!

[demtenjeep]

4. we live among the stupid

and we have a "moran" for a governor

[lastlib]

25. (And a Senator whose name is Moran!)

n/t

[demtenjeep]

31. sadly true

as well

[LonePirate]

6. These are the same people who elected Brownback as Governor, twice.

[elleng]

7. Right, and that affirms my question.

I guess education has something to do with it, eh?

[xloadiex]

28. According to Tweety

Cruz is winning because there are more college graduates there.

[elleng]

29. HAHAHA! Consider the source!

[bdwker]

8. How the hell can ANYONE have voted for that asshole.

[LonePirate]

10. The three Gs: God, Guns and Gays

[madokie]

34. GAGG

God, Abortions, Gays and Guns.Not necessarily in that order but that is the issues for them as well as OK

[Hortensis]

13. We probably should be glad. Cruz's "creepy" factor isn't

just partisan badmouthing, it's real, and his background has a lot of negatives that could be graphically explained in short phrases. He is a mean man.

Evil as Cruz is, Kaisich has actually had me more anxious with his seemingly successful portrayal of himself as a moderate. I think he could carry off appearing to be a responsible, viable, moderate-conservative future president to cons and indies. But he's just not sticking.

The Donald's lead seems secure.

[exboyfil]

26. If Kasich wins Ohio

then the establishment money will flow to him. He will play much better in the Northern states than Cruz. If it goes to a floor fight a nice clutch of delegates (even if it is not a plurality) would help him get the nomination (assuming they don't go the White Knight route with Romney which I think is likely).

I think they have already flushed Rubio. If he can't win his own state, then what good is he.

So far Trump is not winning a majority of delegates. I don't think he can be stopped in Florida, but Ohio looks like is still in play. I think he has had some serious head winds. Explaining that he is essentially an etch-a-sketch candidate in the debate may make a big difference going forward. That has to be demoralizing if you want the wall to be built and paid for by Mexico.

[Hortensis]

36. Thanks for some really good points.

Don't know how I could think of KIsich without the Ohio primary. Coming up fast. Lol to that last. Some seem to be born to always be betrayed and let down by their own government. Even these sorry days.

[-none]

15. There is some question as to whether Brownback won honorably or not.

I'm thinking not because they will not let anyone see the voteing records

[demtenjeep]

22. totally agree

No one I know admits to voting for the asshat


but our stupid state just gave cruz delegates

[Vinca]

9. Aren't they major Bible thumpers?

Cruz was all blah, blah, blah this morning about protecting the Supreme Court so demon liberals don't take freedom of religion away. The poor, persecuted Christians . . . all 83% of the U.S. population of them.

[UCmeNdc]

11. Cruz is saying God selected him to be president!

Wow!

[-none]

16. Has anyone god selected over the years, won yet?

It doesn't seem so. So much for omieomnipotentism.

[davidn3600]

12. Bible thumpers

The same percentage voted for Santorum in 2012.

[Hortensis]

14. Interesting.

[restorefreedom]

17. evangelicals had been for trump

maybe the ones in kansas are more hard core?

i mean, they do like creationism in schools.....

[restorefreedom]

18. caucuses seem to be less favorable to trump

as to the creepy used car salesman winning it, i am perplexed...

[hfojvt]

19. are you saying that you'd prefer Trump?

I think the funniest part is that the Republican Governor endorsed Rubio and he still finished 3rd.

[longship]

23. Can you spell "theocracy"? nt

[Jim Beard]

24. Personally I would like to see Trump keep on winning but if not, I could almost

guarantee he will run as a third Party.

Also, Kansas has voted ALMOST entirely for Republicans since they were admitted to the Union as a Free State, Lincoln Republican. They did vote for Lyndon Johnson.

[monicaangela]

27. Maybe this...

According to the 2010 Census, the racial makeup of the population was:
83.8% of the population was White American (77.5% non-Hispanic white)
5.9% was Black or African American
1.0% American Indian and Alaska Native
2.4% Asian American
0.1% Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander
3.0% from two or more races.


According to the 2010 Census, the racial makeup of the population was:
83.8% of the population was White American (77.5% non-Hispanic white)
5.9% was Black or African American
1.0% American Indian and Alaska Native
2.4% Asian American
0.1% Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander
3.0% from two or more races.

Known as rural flight, the last few decades have been marked by a migratory pattern out of the countryside into cities. Out of all the cities in these Midwestern states, 89% have fewer than 3,000 people, and hundreds of those have fewer than 1,000. In Kansas alone, there are more than 6,000 ghost towns and dwindling communities,[36] according to one Kansas historian, Daniel C. Fitzgerald. At the same time, some of the communities in Johnson County (metropolitan Kansas City) are among the fastest-growing in the country.

Historically, Kansas has been strongly Republican, dating from the Antebellum age when the Republican Party was created out of the movement opposing the extension of slavery into Kansas Territory. Kansas has not elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since the 1932 election, when Franklin D. Roosevelt won his first term as President in the wake of the Great Depression. This is the longest Senate losing streak for either party in a single state. Senator Sam Brownback was a candidate for the Republican party nomination for President in 2008. Brownback was not a candidate for re-election to a third full term in 2010, but he was elected Governor in that year's general election. Moran defeated Tiahrt for the Republican nomination for Brownback's seat in the August 2010 primary, then won a landslide general election victory over Democrat Lisa Johnston.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas

That should tell you a lot. If that doesn't explain it just follow the link.

[MuseRider]

30. Our R's always go with the

religious nut jobs. I believe that our Gov. endorsed Rubio. I know that Kobach did endorse Trump. This says a lot right there.

[kwassa]

32. Got the stink-eye in Hays ...

Got off the interstate looking for dinner, and we are an interracial couple. People stared at us like we were from Mars. Not in a good way.

[elleng]

33. :-(

[hobbit709]

35. Evidently being downwind of Colorado isn't helping.