I would love to see Brownback get voted out of office, but alas, Tmth is 100% correct.
Davis would make a decent Governor, but his state is far too red for him to get elected, unfortunately. We might as well nickname a situation where a Democrat won't get elected simply due to being in a red state the Davis Effect (see: Paul/Wendy)
Kathleen Sebelius would beg to differ. If she wasn't too busy taking all the heat from the crappy ACA website that is.
>implying one of the faces of Obamacare is going to get elected again in a red state
I wasn't saying she would get elected again. I was saying she proved a Democrat can win in Kansas.
2002 is NOT 2014 to put it mildly. Partisanship has drifted down to the state race level in an unprecidented fashion.
I suspect many KS Republicans and conservative independents who supported her regret it somewhat after she became the face of Obamacare.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_gubernatorial_election,_2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_gubernatorial_election,_2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_gubernatorial_election,_2012 (Yes, he lost, but it was still very close for a blue state like Washington)
People are exaggerating the polarization with regards to governor's races. While overall it's not as hospitable for opposite party governors as it was a decade ago, it's still very possible.
WA: Yes, he lost.
MT: Dem followed an intensely popular Democratic gov in a state that (unlike KS) doesn't shy from electing Dem governors and which Obama almost carried 4 years ealrier.
AR: Ok, a bona fide slaughter in a GOP high water year, but the AR Dem party has one of the tightest holds on state government in the country until recently. Running as a Dem in AR is, well, like running as a Rep in KS.
