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Can Kansas moderates recover?
The joke used to be that the Democratic caucus in the Kansas Senate was so small it could meet in a phone booth.
Today, moderate Senate Republicans could probably meet in one, too.
If Tuesday’s primary results hold through the fall, the Kansas Senate would be left with five moderate Republicans after conservatives won decisively in key Senate races on Tuesday. They defeated seven moderate incumbents who were blamed for blocking Gov. Sam Brownback’s conservative agenda.
“It was an ugly election,” said former state Senate President Dick Bond, a moderate Republican who backed several Johnson County Senate candidates who lost Tuesday.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/08/3752020/can-kansas-moderates-recover.html#storylink=cpy
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