KS-Sen: Taylor drops out

[LeBron]

According to The Green Papers, now that Taylor's out, there still are other candidates in this race besides Orman and Roberts; 3 to be exact including the Libertarian candidate. Milton Wolf lost to Roberts partially because of that vote split between the anti-Roberts people, so I would really hope Batson (L) and the others do the right thing as well and drop out. It would not only help the Dems in the long run for majority purposes, but take out one of the most partisan gridlocked Senators and end the near century GOP trend on this one specific Senate seat.

There might be a large number of drop-offs now among Taylor supporters/Democrats, but even though this is Kansas, it might actually help him in the long run if he agrees to caucus with the Democrats. If you take the last PPP and SurveyUSA polls and add the Taylor + Orman vote, Roberts loses by double digits, so a lot is at stake at who they vote for now.

[LeBron]

Some other big news. Sam Wang, the same guy who predicted every Senate race in 2012 including North Dakota and Montana, gives Orman an 85% probability of beating Roberts with much higher chances at a Democratic majority.

Assuming he does win as PPP indicates and he does caucus with Dems which his views and his anti-extremism indicates, the GOP would need 7 seats to flip the Senate. With Michigan out of grasp, that's very unlikely.

I love how Roberts is responding to this - he's just flat-out going with the old "Orman's an Obama liberal!!!" to try and save his seat. Roberts could really be done for! The Tea Party hates him over the residency issue, and statewide, most moderate Kansans hate him. It's just a matter of getting enough name ID for Orman to rally enough anti-Roberts voters to vote for him and win.