allies will make this argument. >> i think that will have taken away the argument that she is, you know, a drag or affecting, you know, candidates. if we won, then that really wasn't effective and then i don't understand what the case against her would be. >> here in kansas republican steve watkins, an army veteran and first-time candidate, was also vying for the open seat is trying to link davis to pelosi. >> he is saying what he thinks he has to say in order to get elected, and kansas voters aren't being fooled by that. >> a recent cnn poll showed that pelosi is not a major factor for most voters nationally. >> i don't think it's really having much of an impact. on day one of the campaign, i'm not going to support her, and there's nothing that's going to change that. whatever the republicans are going to say, i think, is just, you know, trying to muddy the waters, which they do time again and time again. >> it's been a strategy that republicans have tried throughout the country this election season.