Some stories are so crazy you wonder how they happened. With the RSCC sweeping in to take over Pat Roberts campaign, many Republicans in the state are feeling the squeeze of a party that will sacrifice everyone else to keep alive their hopes of grabbing the senate.
Today's fresh polling news, handled by DKE directly, presents a tough battle for the embattled US Senator. Roberts fails to get over 40%.. in fact, significantly under 40%... making it a hard case for him to battle back to that elusive mark that gets him a win.
With bad news already on the ground, and RSCC rushing into save him, you would normally figure that campaign discipline would start to kick in.
Not so for Pat Roberts.
http://thehill.com/...
Though Republican Sen. Pat Roberts insists Kansas remains his home, on Federal Election Commission filings documenting campaign reimbursements to him and his wife, he lists his Alexandria, Va., address.
The detail is sure to raise further questions about whether the incumbent is still connected enough to Kansas to represent it in the Senate, questions that dogged him throughout his primary fight and have contributed to his unexpected vulnerability in the general election this fall.
Roberts has been battling a real problem with being perceived as an out of stater - at one point saying that he kept a residence in Kansas.. which proved out to be a recliner in a donor household.
In an interview, the three-term senator acknowledged that he did not have a home of his own in Kansas. The house on a country club golf course that he lists as his voting address belongs to two longtime supporters and donors—C. Duane and Phyllis Ross—and he says he stays with them when he is in the area. He established his voting address there the day before his challenger, Milton Wolf, announced his candidacy last fall, arguing that Mr. Roberts was out of touch with his High Plains roots.
"I have full access to the recliner," the senator joked. Turning serious, he added, "Nobody knows the state better than I do."
http://www.nytimes.com/...
But while that Recliner may make for a place to sleep it apparently doesn't actually constitute a home - at least not to Pat Roberts, who listed his residence in Virginia as the location for reimbursements and official documents.
Roberts faced a real fight over this issue with Milton Wolf, the Tea Party Republican who contended that Roberts had lost touch with Kansas and his long term of service should be ended in favor of someone committed to term limits.
Now facing an Independent who has taken up the cry of term limits, vowing to no more than 2 terms, Roberts finds himself back in the debate of his home. Except this time it isn't just outsiders accusing him of it - he's now battling his own signature on federal documents.
The real question is: Where is Home, Pat?