GOP Targets Kansas House Freshman, But Primary Battle Looms

[chat_noir]

Nancy Boyda , the Democratic House freshman from the typically Republican-leaning 2nd District of Kansas, underwent a natural progression from longshot winner in 2006 to high-priority GOP target for the 2008 election.

Although Boyda ran as a centrist Democrat when she unseated five-term Republican Jim Ryun in 2006 and has sought to maintain that profile in Congress, she appears to be politically vulnerable this year. Her race is one of just four for Democratic-held seats currently rated by CQ Politics as No Clear Favorite, or tossup.

All the Republicans needed, it seemed, was a well-known and well-funded candidate to take on Boyda. The GOP’s problem, though, is that it has two well-known and well-funded candidates pursuing their nomination in the Aug. 1 primary. And the competition between the rematch-seeking Ryun and state Treasurer Lynn Jenkins, which is already heated and is expected to pick up in intensity, is casting some doubt about their party’s ability to avoid a damaging rift that will hobble its chances in the general election.

Burdett Loomis, a political science professor and longtime elections analyst at the University of Kansas, calls the Republican primary race “a classic moderate/conservative battle” in a state in which an overall GOP dominance is colored by a longstanding and sometimes bitter competition between the ideological wings of the party.


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[Fovea]

1. What are they gonna do?

They have lost Kansas fair and square.
Their presidential candidate has to break campaign financing laws to stay in the race.
Where is the kinda money they are going to need to buy up 100% of the talk radio and uhf tv commercial time in the state?

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. This is a perfect example of how and why the GOP in KS is disintegrating

They fight each other rather than the Democratic party. You think they would figure it out eventually.