Posted by moy23 on 4/12/2017 12:41:00 AM (view original):
All day today I read on mainstream media how close the Kansas special election was going to be.... The result = Estes (R) won by 7% in a Congressional district that included liberal Wichita.
Uh, that's anything but a liberal district.
Republicans outnumber Democrats in the district nearly 2-to-1 and the fact that Thompson made the race competitive will likely have reverberations both nationally and in Kansas as the state moves into 2018 with the governor’s office up for grabs.
Pompeo, a Republican who won by 31 percentage points in November, gave up his seat in the 4th Congressional District in January to serve as Trump’s director of the CIA.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article144061274.html#storylink=cpy