KS-SEN 2020 Megathread: Marshall overperforms and wins

[Epaminondas]

It should be noted that Republicans were the incumbents in a lot of these deep blue elastic states

That sounds wrong.
Red-in-Blue-States Governors up in 2010 were Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont & Cali. They all lost but that's not exactly "a lot".

And in the Senate only NH, which hardly qualifies as deep blue.

[Epaminondas]

https://twitter.com/Politics1com/status/1144970113503944704?s=19

Looking at her picture, I'd have put money that she was Republican. She changed registrations at 48, which is intriguing. Feels like opportunism.

She's younger than I thought (63), but wouldn't she appear bland for today's young Dems in contrast to Sharice Davids?
Today Democrats need a passion factor to turn out their base. That's why Kelly won and Paul Davis lost handily after winning the district in 2014.

[Epaminondas]

You can't win in Kansas on "base enthusiasm" only.... You need a lot of "bland well-to-do suburban" votes too... And they are not too likely to go for "bold progressive".

You couldn't correctly define progressivism if it slapped you in the face.

[Epaminondas]

This is safe R without Kobach as the nominee, and he will not win the primary again. This race is getting too much attention.

One would think after your fiasco of predicting Jones v Moore, you'd stop the peremptory tone of your predictions in Red States.

[Epaminondas]

Dont you guys realize Trunp is traling by over 10 points in natl polls

This sort of complacent statement is the last we need to hear in the Dem camp.
Assume the national polls are wrong by 5.

[Epaminondas]

Why is Boyda out? Her name recognition and moderate image would have been a strong selling point in a district that has veered hard right since the 1990s.

+100. Most of the present day Republican "activists" (and it's them, who vote in the primary) are not dumb - they are extremely dumb, bordering on pure idiocy...

I almost fell off my rocking chair.
What happened to your motto "Kansas is Kansas, they have every right to their brand of policies, you brainwashed liberal"?