In the election where Democrats took 27+ seats of the 435 in the House of Representatives, Democrats in Kansas took 6 seats in the state House. Moving from 42 Dems to 48 means that Republicans cannot override a veto on a party-line vote.
A popular Democratic governor and an unpopular Republican Attorney General at the top of the ticket can really change how people think about down-ticket races.
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...because that's your job. TPM reports the following whine from an anonymous Senate Democratic chief-of-staff:
Over at Hullabaloo, I found this great list of suggested slogans for congressional Democrats:
If I had to choose between being a democrat or a rethuglican, well, I'd choose democrat, however, I am more of a rational humanist than I am anything else.