Turnout is key

In the key races for Board of Education and the US House, the balance of power rests on who can turn out the most voters. Republicans love to crow about their system, and in Kansas that system is dominated by church-based groups.

Democratic volunteers are out knocking doors, ringing phones and driving voters to polls. If you can help those efforts, now is the time. And if you just want to give a few friends a call and remind them to vote, that's important, too. My guess is that Don Weiss, Jack Wempe and Nancy Boyda will not have clear answers until every vote is counted. If you didn't do everything you could to make this matter, you'll wonder what would have been different years from now.

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