The Cooler-Than-You-Think History Behind the Kansas We Saw Tuesday

Summary

“Kansas, get ready to learn what a polycule is,” read one Tuesday night tweet . All in due time. Let Kansans rest up. (This includes the ethically nonmonogamous community in Lawrence .) Kansas must be exhausted. It swung left 21.06 points Tuesday. As everyone now knows, the state elected Adam Hamilton, a recent Democratic convert and founding pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the country , as its first Democratic U.S. senator since 1932. But it also appears to have chosen Cindy Holscher, an economic populist, as governor. Democrats picked up 20 seats in the statehouse, breaking…

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