In Kansas, 9 former Republicans run as Democrats

[Mabus]

The GOP are jumping ship because they're realizing that the Democratic Party is the party that cares about people, fiscal responsibility and the future. The reasons people cite switching is because thye are tired of the attention the GOP pays to divisive issues while the world is falling apart. These former Republicans are realizing what they really care about and they have found out the (Kansas) Democratic Party shares their values. For these people, it isn't about divisive issues rather it is the about the common values we share that is making the difference.

Keep up the good work everyone! This is proof that there is hope in the heartland.

In Kansas, 9 former Republicans run as Democrats
Thu Nov 2, 2006 1:09pm ET16

By Carey Gillam

MISSION, Kansas (Reuters)- Former Kansas legislator David Adkins may be a self-described "washed-up white male Republican politician," but come election night he and many others in the longtime Republican stronghold state of Kansas are placing their hopes, and votes, on Democrats.

A mini-rebellion is under way in an American Heartland state so historically unswingable that neither national party typically spends much time or energy stumping for candidates.

But this year President George W. Bush, the country's leading Republican, is making a last-minute campaign stop in Kansas, where at least nine candidates running on the November 7 ballot are Republicans-turned-Democrats. They include a veteran county prosecutor seeking to unseat the Republican attorney general and a former state Republican Party chairman running as the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor.

A cross-section of Democrats, moderate Republicans and independents are backing the party-switchers, saying a Republican obsession with expanded government and deficit spending, along with divisive social issues like abortion and gay marriage, has marred efforts to limit government, boost spending on education and ensure fiscal responsibility.

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