(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Sept. 22, 2014)
There’s a subtle but starting-to-get identifiable undertone to this year’s elections that we really haven’t seen in decades in Kansas politics this year.
It’s creating a new voting bloc, not just Republicans, not just Democrats, not just unaffiliated voters, or even Libertarians who remain split on whether your meat should be inspected.
It’s a fast-growing “I’m voting against” block that the U.S. Senate race, the governor’s race and the Secretary of State race appear to be generating toward the top of the ballot.
Those are the races, or office-holders, which are getting all the press, and for good reason, we think, whether they generated the attention or whether they are the object of the controversy.