Kansas Governor: Sebelius (D) 48% Barnett (R) 37%
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Rasmussen Reports - Now that Republican State Senator Jim Barnett has won the August 1 primary, Governor Kathleen Sebelius leads her challenger 48% to 37%, a drop from seventeen percentage points in our last survey,&nbsp;to eleven.The Governor&#39;s support has yet to rise much above 50% in any case. But the decline reflects the closer competition we often see in a final campaign stretch and have been seeing in races around the country.
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Rasmussen Reports - In California&#39;s competitive gubernatorial race, Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger now leads Democratic challenger Phil Angelides 47% to 39%. He has thus added a couple points to what had been a six-point lead in August.
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Rasmussen Reports - As Florida&#39;s September 5 primaries approach, the Rasmussen Reports election poll shows Republican Attorney General Charles Crist narrowly leading Democratic Congressman Jim Davis 45% to 41% when voters consider a general election match-up.
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Rasmussen Reports - The latest Rasmussen Reports election survey in Montana shows Democrat Jon Tester leading incumbent Republican Sen.
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How many of Texas' 254 counties on Nov. 7 voted for Richard "Kinky" Friedman, an iconoclastic musician and author who waged an independent campaign for governor? (Friedman finished fourth overall, with 13 percent of the vote, in a race won by Republican incumbent Rick Perry).  0 2 4 6
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Democratic hopes for a gain of at least one Senate seat in 2008 are growing, buoyed by new campaign finance reports and polls in New Mexico. Despite retiring Republican Sen. Pete V. Domenici's long tenure, popularity and strong reputation in the state, Democratic Rep. Tom Udall already dominates his two Republican challengers.
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TOPEKA - Democrats saw their already low numbers in the Legislature slip further in Tuesday&#39;s election, likely making it even harder for Gov.
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By Janese Heavin, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Jun. 8--Gov. Matt Blunt has nominated a school choice supporter to the board that oversees Missouri's public schools.   Former State Rep. Derio Gambaro, a St.
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Michael Beasley scored 25 points, Bill Walker had 19 and No. 22 Kansas State ended a 24-year, home-court losing streak against Kansas with an 84-75 victory Wednesday night against the previously unbeaten Jayhawks.
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Our position is: Mitch Daniels must continue to reach out to Hoosiers of all backgrounds in leading state on a new path. Mitch Daniels, who was elected as Indiana&#39;s governor Tuesday, must lead six million Hoosiers to not only accept change but embrace it.
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Rasmussen Reports - In one of the country&#39;s most closely watched races, incumbent Senator Joseph Lieberman (I) continues to sustain a bare lead, now 45% to 43%, over Democrat Ned Lamont.
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (Sports Network) - Wayne Simien scored 22  points and Aaron Miles had 14 with 10 assists, as third-ranked  Kansas fought back from an 11-point deficit early in the second  half to record a 73-61 victory over fellow Big 12 member  Missouri at Allen Fieldhouse.
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee easily won the Republican presidential contest in Kansas on Saturday, showing signs of life in a nominating race front-runner John McCain has nearly sewed up.
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By Barbara J. Isenberg, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Mar. 1--Values for nearly 70 percent of Sedgwick County homes will increase this year, with a median increase of 6 percent, County Appraiser Michael Borchard said Wednesday.
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Voters in 44 states went to the polls Tuesday to choose roughly four-fifths of the nation&#39;s state legislators, with Republicans and Democrats nearly evenly divided and perhaps a dozen states
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Agriculture. President Bush this morning nominated Nebraska Governor Mike Johanns to serve in that post. If the Senate confirms Johanns, he will replace Ann Veneman, who recently announced her resignation.
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TOPEKA - Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced today at a Topeka senior center that they were joining forces to provide access to prescription drugs from Europe and Canada.