When it comes to presidential campaigns, Kansas completely ignored

"Long gone are the days when the Sunflower State mattered in presidential races," said John B. Anderson, former member of Congress and chairman of FairVote, a voter advocacy group. Kansas received none of the TV advertising spent by the two campaigns during the last five weeks of the 2004 presidential campaign and only 0.34 percent of the presidential and vice presidential campaign visits, according to a new FairVote report. "Kansas is completely ignored," Anderson said. The reason, of course, is that Kansas is so predictably Republican that neither party feels any need to campaign here.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

5 Comments

  1. Joe Williams
    Posted November 13, 2005 at 12:16 am | Permalink

    That might change in 2000. While I don’t think the Democrats will campaign here, the Republicans fighting for the primaries and Sam Brownback might make things interesting in Kansas.

  2. writerdog
    Posted November 13, 2005 at 8:32 am | Permalink

    Brownback is so cock sure of Kansas he does not bother to visit.There was a time I would have been angery about them ignoring Kansas.There was a time I was proud to be a Kansasan. Know, well right now I think of Kansas like I think of my truck. There is so much has gone wrong I have a hard time remembering why I ever loved it.

  3. Galahad
    Posted November 13, 2005 at 11:18 am | Permalink

    Cheney came with a big duffel bag and filled it up with money.

    Other than that, we got nuthin.

  4. Ray Thomas
    Posted November 13, 2005 at 11:20 am | Permalink

    Having lived in Florida during the last election, I am not sure that being ignored by television ads is a bad thing. Having 8 out of every 10 commercials being political ads claiming all kinds of things is not fun. So, this could be a blessing…ignore the ads and do our own research.

  5. janabanana
    Posted November 13, 2005 at 1:12 pm | Permalink

    This morning on Face the Nation, Sen. McCain was asked if he was going to run in 2008. He said he wasn’t going to make a decision yet, but he sure put a lot of light on Giuliani as the most possible candidate. Giuliani is the popular moderate republican puppy the party will probably pin their hopes on. The ultra conservatives would love Brownback, but I think that the Republicans are going to fraction into two parts from all the crap that is going on right now.

    Kansas will still be ignored.

    I think Kansas is more purple than red or blue. I think moderates and democrats just don’t bother voting if they hate a particular Republican or want to vote democrat because they think it is futile. I think if everyone who wanted to vote democrat showed up at the poles, we would have some interesting politics in Kansas.We do have a democrat governor.