Holding out hope that Johnson County soccer moms pull Colyer through. It’s an extremely suburban county, so there’s hope. I don’t put faith in Kobach being easier to beat because Greg Orman is running as an independent for governor again, and he’s bound to peel away quite a chunk of Democratic votes.
Does anyone know if Kansas require a majority vote for state offices? Orman may prevent anyone from getting a majority on the first vote.
Kansas voters don’t really deserve the likes of Kobach. They deserve far worse. Pol Pot level leadership. Any group of people that voted Sam Brownback into office twice should have to fend off a killing fields level of governance. Whatever losses they sustained would be to the nation’s betterment.
Looks like Kobach leads by 541 votes with 95% of Johnson County precincts reporting at 6 AM. The rest of the precincts should be posted by 8 AM CST. Johnson County installed new voting machines and there were some glitches:
Metsker said the voting results were properly tabulated and secured, with a paper audit trail. But he also acknowledged that the new voting system had major problems with reporting the results.
Metsker said the vendor for the new machines, Election Systems & Software, had its best engineers working on the problem throughout the night. He said they had finally found a workaround for the problem about 11 p.m.
Glad to see there’s a paper trail.
ETA:
Results are in:
Kobach leads Colyer by 191 votes after Johnson County finishes counting
This is what we wanted… right? The general should be harder for Kobach to win.
No majority vote. Most votes wins.
F U
Kansans had their chance yesterday to put Kobach out to pasture. To assure he would not have a say in their future governance. Apparently they felt, in fact, Kobach was their man. A xenophobic bigot that thinks brown and black people should be heavily dissuaded from voting.
So, yes, Kansas deserves Kobach. And while they’re at it they may as well install as many other hateful, racist, bigoted assholes as they can lay their hands on. It’s what Kansans do.
The NYT shows 63% of Johnson County votes in with it going pretty strongly for Coyler. If the remaining 37% vote is the same mix as the first 63%, Coyler should pull if off.
Kansas deserves the Homemade Kochsucker Kobach! Thanks to Mr T rump Russia has been kind enough
to pick up the Slack in Soybean sales to China !!
Outside of Topeka and Wichita, most of Kansas is rural, which means that a majority of those voters are republican. Dems and independents have not made very many inroads in rural areas, so our work is cut out for us. Having Trump and Kobach around helps (two Rs that turn off progressives, moderates, and some Rs).
Yes. Kansans will surely experience a transformation over the next 3 months that sees them turn away from their long track record of the general idiocy and repugnance they exercise in electing state leaders.
Epiphanies will abound.