Because someone was silly today and tried to comment something saying this race was something other than a toss up or leaning toward Congresswoman Nancy Boyda, we wanted to give you all nice clickable links to every single major race ranking list so you can see for yourselves what the political professionals think is going on in the 2nd District of Kansas:
- Charlie Cook- The Cook Political Report: Lean Democratic (Oct. 30)
- Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball '08: Democratic Hold (Oct. 30)
- National Journal: Not in the top 55 most competitive seats (the KS-02 was 44rd last week) (Oct. 30)
- Stu Rothenberg- The Rothenberg Political Report: Toss Up/ Tilt Democratic (Oct. 29)
- Swing State Project: Lean D (Oct. 29)
- Washington Post: 43rd Most Likely Seat to Switch Party (Oct. 24)
- RealClearPolitics: Toss Up or Leans GOP (depending on where you look on the site); 19th Most Likely Seat to Switch Party (Last update unknown)
- CQ Politics: No Clear Favorite (Last update unknown)
So, there you go- how all of the big national folk think this race is shaking out. It's obviously tight- a race for a Democrat in an R+7 will always be- but it's clear most agree with our assesment: Lynn Jenkins simply hasn't convinced the voters of the Kansas 2nd Nancy Boyda's been a bad representative, and Jenkins and the conservative third party groups would have been wise to keep their outlandish claims about "the largest tax increase in history" in their hats.
Holy God- we've been doing this for a year!
More than 400 posts and 30,000 hits later this little blog has made a real life impact on political blogging in Kansas and about Kansas.
We brought you "Making Tom DeLay Smile" and "The Jenky Tax."
We caused the Republicans of the state fits of apoplexy (including sending our former arch rival Bounce Boyda off the deep end....and straight into the Jenkins campaign. Oh, drat, did we say that?).
We've been linked to on the front page of Daily Kos, Swing State Project and Crooks and Liars, and we've had very public fights with Kansas GOP Executive Director Christan Morgan and Kansas Americans for Prosperity Chief Minion Alan Cobb (we miss you Alan...)- two men that really, really should have something better to do than pay any attention to little ol' us.
Above all else, we did exactly what we set out to do: We've trumpeted Congresswoman Nancy Boyda's successes and beat the living hell out of folks who dared liar about her work in Congress...and we had a lot of fun at Jim Ryun (we miss you, too!) and Lynn Jenkins' expense whenever the opportunity arose.
We'd like to thank all of our readers, everyone who comments (particularly Jenkins & KS GOP office staff), and we'd like to just ask all of you keep reading- this is going to get lots more wild before we're all done!
This blog is not affiliated in any way with the Kansas Democratic Party, the Democratic National Committee, Congresswoman Nancy Boyda, the Office of Congresswoman Nancy Boyda, or the campaign to re-elected Congresswoman Nancy Boyda. All commentary herein not directly attributed must be considered the opinion of the authors of this blog and not of any other individual, including Congresswoman Nancy Boyda.
