into kansas and did an in-person campaign rally last night at a private aviation hangar. polls closed tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern time in kansas which means we're watching the results trickle in. even the fact they couldn't just call it at poll closing for the republican, that itself is news in this kind of a race. and this is just one race. we'll see how it turns out. but sometimes these individual races have a national message. 1974 was a famous one. six months before the watergate scandal forced president nixon to resign, the congressional district in michigan that had been gerald ford's congressional district, what "the new york times" describe as one of the most republican bastions in the country. that district went to a democrat in a special election for the first time since 1910. and that wasn't a forever change. doesn't mean that was a bellwether for what that