Kansas Gov. Brownback Down By 8 Points
 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...y.html?hpid=z3

"GODDARD, Kan. — Gail Jamison, a lifelong Republican, voted for Sam Brownback for governor in 2010 believing he would restore school funding that had been greatly reduced by the recession.
Four years later, she has joined with more than 100 prominent Republicans in publicly throwing their support behind Brownback’s Democratic opponent — because, she said, Brownback pursued a hefty tax cut for the rich that deprived schools of needed resources.
“I am shocked by what’s happened,” said Jamison, president of the Board of Education in this Wichita suburb. “I find it personally a very extreme stance.”
As he runs for reelection, Brownback is finding that what he once called a “real live experiment” in red-state governance is struggling to produce the benefits he had promised, spurring an increasingly competitive gubernatorial race against state House Minority Leader Paul Davis (D). His troubles also provide a case study of what can happen when single-party control — now the norm in most states — combines with the sharp rightward shift of the Republican Party."

It's looking bleak for Brownback in Kansas. Maybe Ohio should follow suit and dump Kasich. :p

Kansas' economic tailspin (and/or Brownback's defeat) will do little to temper the zeal of Reaganomics proponents.

Jesus Christ!

She voted for a Republican to restore school funding?

It never ceases to amaze me how fucking stupid some voters can be.

If Brownback is defeated.

I wouldn't count on it.

Kansas turns out about a million votes in a statewide election.

Brownback is down 8%. That comes to about 80,000 votes on election day. That's not much of a margin when you consider that citizens united will enable outside interests to pump millions of bucks in money to run negative ads against his opponent between now and election day.

Bob, repeat after me: President Kasich. President Kasich. :D

Pete

There will not be another Republican President in my lifetime or yours.

http://www.redstate.com/diary/6755mm...or-ever-again/

I have a call into our county election commissioner (appointed by Brownback) to enquire why, after 30 years of having the same polling place, since Brownback was elected our polling place has changed every election. You wouldn't know it but for a little post card sent out about a month before the elections.

I suspect its' so people will not be able to find the voting booth come election day.

It would be interesting to see whether the moving of polling stations is related to the demographics and voting trends of the district.

It would...but I imagine the Brownback appointed commissioner will tell me that.

The area is in a old established lower income part of town.

Did your that Mercury Marquis gashole slide off the jackstands and land on your head, again? :rolleyes:

I can see Rand Paul and Corey Booker running on a sort of national reconcilation ticket.

Yes, but it didn't any damage, there's nothing left to hurt ;)

The way I see it it's a win/win. Either the GOP takes the Presidency or I'll reintroduce Billy Beer :D

Pete

You needed that post fixed

Hah! Y'all are really scraping the bottom of the barrel if you think 'Thirsty' Rubio has any chance in hell of getting through the primaries next year. I heard Romney is still available. :rolleyes:

Hillary would make Rubio look like the wet-behind-the-ears wannabee he is.

Clinton is outpolling Rubio by 14 points in Rubio's home state of Florida.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epo...lls/president/

They've won a single popular vote of the last 6.

Goodness, I hope the left really believes that. Makes it easier.

I seem to remember the GOP was finished as a party after 2008.

Pete

Every day a thousand old baggers drop dead, and every day a thousand anchor babies turn 18. Do the math.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty31QY5ZGHo

They seem to be working hard to ensure their future irrelevance.

I spoke with the election commissioner today. What an oily smooth talker he was. The reason they keep moving the voting places around is those places simply don't want to be polling places any more so they move them somewhere else.

30 years in one place and suddenly they can't get any one place to poll for more than one election?

So I'm going to do some calling around and see if this is true.

Don't you just hate it when people tell you such obvious lies?

I wish you could a heard this guy on the phone....

A used car salesman.... you could hear the oil dripping from his hair.....

As you know, the saving grace for me is I have less than a year left in this place, then I'm moving in with you......

Hell no! We need you to be the able thorn in the side of Brownback's minions in Kansas. Give 'em hell Potter!!!

More bad news for Brownback. S&P downgrades bond rating for Kansas.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...d1394&hpid=z10

"An ambitious plan to cut income taxes in Kansas will end up costing the state more money than it initially estimated after a key ratings agency downgraded the state’s debt on Wednesday.
Standard & Poor’s cited structural imbalances created by the tax cut in its decision to slice Kansas’s bond rating from AA+ to AA. That means Kansas will have to offer a higher interest rate to lenders when it issues new bonds." WaPo

Like it was dripping from the main bearing seals of the car he was trying to sell you?

LOL as Browneye sputters and stammers over this one....

At least he blushed while he was blaming it all on Obama for not caving during the budget wars. ;)