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Fine. Since over-moderation and censorship seem to be the rule of the day, I'm going to (yet again) go through everything wrong with this attitude.

Firstly, people who blame an entire state for the actions of a single elected official are just as stupid as they claim Kansans are. See how that wasn't personal, mods?

Carrying on. The most recent election is a wonderful example of how to assassinate a political campaign. The Democrats in this state couldn't get ahead in the polls simply because they are in the same party as Barack Obama. So the Democrats pulled out and threw their support in behind Independent candidate Greg Orman.

Which was a huge mistake. This gave lobbying groups (including the NRA and the U.S Chamber of Commerce) the opportunity to run one of the biggest smear campaigns I have ever seen. Consistantly linking him to Obama, Reid and Clinton based off of a single 9k donation to a single liberal PAC. Using the right-wing manufactured hatred of our sitting President to dredge up rumored associations about a candidate that simply didn't get enough PR for people to know him, and many of his decidedly right-leaning opinions on policy and reform.

Hell, they even used a very loose affiliation with a long forgotten contact of Orman's to claim he associates with criminals. Oh, and they basically pinned Obamacare on Orman, going so far as to say that his single refusal to answer a spur of the moment, on the street question about Obamacare indicated that he would not answer any questions on that subject, and several completely unrelated issues typically associated with Obama.

When you add in the Republican tactics of gerrymandering (such as re-drawing districts in Kansas City to favor themselves and refusing to remove the Democratic candidates name from ballots despite him pulling out of the race, intentionally splitting the vote), the limited voting windows (which provide little opportunity for overworked Kansans to even get to a polling place, not to mention the difficulty of keeping your damned job in a right-to-work state in the first place) as well as voter ID issues and strict rules for Advanced Ballots, I have no idea how we were supposed to get ANYONE voted into office that wasn't a Republican candidate.

TL;DR Blaming the entire state is dumb, censorship is fucking ridiculous, and I'm sick and tired of ignorant people trying to pin Brownback and his bullshit on the entire state.

Better, /u/BarbatisCollum?

Edit - My second gilding, and while I was being a bit of a dick. Don't know that I deserve it, but I greatly appreciate it!

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