poll got publicized. low single digit lead? really? and the republican party started to panic, not just in kansas but nationally. the vice president of the united states and the president of the united states did robocalls in the district. as we reported last night, senator ted cruz of texas flew 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 wharks, what the new
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 wharks, 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 district was going to be like forever, but it did signal the political temperature in the country at that moment. and that can happen in off-year elections. particularly when the country is going through a real upheaval in terms of public opinion. in 2005, ohio.