| Twenty legislators from both the State Senate and the Kansas House of Representatives jointly endorsed Obama today, including the State Senate minority leader. This is all the more remarkable given the fact that in conservative Kansas, despite a Democratic governor, the Republican party controls two-thirds of both chambers of the legislature. Indeed there are only a combined total of 47 state representatives and 10 state senators from the Democratic party, so today's endorsement represents a huge portion of the Democratic members of the legislature, indeed over a third. Kansas will hold its caucus on February 5th and has been heavily targeted by the Obama campaign, which feels it can have the strongest impact with its superior grassroots organizing in the caucus states. After winning the Iowa caucus, Obama's Iowa organizing team fanned out across the country. |
