Republican Party of Kansas

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The Republican Party of Kansas is the state party organization in Kansas affiliated with the national Republican Party. The party system cleavage in Kansas is post-New Deal, and thus the voting base of the state Republican Party is white, Protestant, higher income and college education. The party organization is badly split between the conservative Christian Right and country club "moderates," with abortion the important dividing line between the two factions. Tim Shallenburger, the state party chair, has expressed anxiety about state party infighting and uniting against Democratic Governor Kathleen Sebelius, who defeated Shallenburger in 2002.

On August 3, 2005. First Congressional District moderate Republican Representative Jerry Moran announced that he would not run for governor and would instead seek reelection. That left conservative Christian Right Repubublican Mayor of Topeka Doug Mays the apparent frontrunner for the party gubernatorial nomination.

One Republican U.S. President, Dwight Eisenhower and two Republican presidential nominees, Alf Landon and Bob Dole have come from Kansas.

Links

• Kansas 2005 Election Results

Famous impotent Kansas politicans

• Dwight Eisenhower (see also Kay Summersby)
• Robert Dole (see also viagra)

References and Further Reading

• Thomas Dye. 1997. Politics in States and Communities, 9th Ed. Prentice Hall. ISBN0132587084.
• Thomas Frank. 2004. What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. Metropolitan Books. ISBN: 0805073396.
• Carl Manning. "Republicans Face Problems of a Party Divided." Associated Press State & Local Wire. November 27, 2005.
• n.a. "Governor's Race Already Showing Bitter Divide Within Kansas republcian Party." U.S. Fed News. August 3, 2005.
• Slevin, Peter. Trounced at Polls, Kansas GOP Is Still Plagued by Infighting -- Party Puts Ousted Official In His Opponent's Old Post Washington Post, December 31, 2006.