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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
POLITICS
ELECTION RESULTS
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U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (2nd District)
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Lynn Jenkins
STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENATIVES (10TH DISTRICT)
State
John Wilson
STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENATIVES (42ND DISTRICT)
Connie O'Brien
STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENATIVES (44TH DISTRICT)
Barbara Ballard
STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENATIVES (46TH DISTRICT)
Election Results from the Douglas County Clerk's Office as of 11:30 p.m.
Kansans rebuff Wu, creationism
STATE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOPEKA — An incumbent Democratic State Board of Education member on Tuesday defeated a Republican challenger with ties to an anti-gay Topeka church notorious for picketing military members' funerals.
According to unofficial results, Carolyn Campbell of Topeka defeated Jack Wu, a Topeka computer programmer who made opposition to teaching evolution the cornerstone of his campaign in the 4th District in northeast Kansas. Wu described evolution as "Satanic lies" and said on a website that public schools were preparing students to be "liars, crooks, thieves, murderers, and pervers."
Campbell campaigned aggressively, saying throughout that she took nothing for granted. Messages left for Campbell weren't immediately returned Tuesday night.
Wu also raised eyebrows by saying that he was lured to Kansas from California in 2008 by Westboro Baptist. The Topeka
church, led by the Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., is known internationally for picketing with anti-gay slogans and proclaiming that American soldiers' deaths are God's pun-
sources certain ishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. Wu is not formally a member, but he's attended services regularly.
Republicans, including Gov. Sam Brownback.
Campbell, a former Topeka school board member, was elected to her second, four-year term on the state board.
She acknowledged that she was worried some voters in GOP-
disavowed Wu in June, and Democrats worked to make sure voters knew about his identification with Westboro Baptist. Wu said he didn't have the campaign resources to counter Campbell's ads making an issue of his ties to the church.
"I don't see where that has anything to do with public education. It is what it is," he said.
leaning Kansas would simply follow Wu's party affiliation.
"I hope that everyone else understood the actual candidates."
John Ham, 48. a stay-at-home father of two teenagers in Topeka, is a registered Republican
"I hope that everyone else understood the actual candidates," he said, leaving his polling place at the Topeka Lutheran School.
but voted for
Campbell
because of
Wu's ties to
Westboro
Baptist.
He said he too
worried
that about
Republicans
JOHN HAM
Topeka resident
The election keeps the 10-member board's balance of power the same, diminishing any chances that Kansas might adopt science standards for its public schools skeptical of evolution, as it has in the past.
voting a straight ticket.
A coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans was firmly in the majority.
Much of the board's work
in setting education policy has been overshadowed since the late 1990s by debates about how evolution should be taught and the resulting national attention and ridicule.
The state had five sets of standards in eight years starting in 1999, as evolution skeptics gained and lost state board majorities in elections.
The current, evolution-friendly standards were adopted by the board in 2007, but state law requires them to be updated.
Kansas is working with 25 other states and the National Research Council on proposed science standards, and Kansas officials expect the state board to consider adopting them early next year.
In the 2nd District in the Kansas City area, Steve Roberts, an overland Park Republican and professional math tutor, defeated former state Rep. Cindy Neighbor of Shawnee.
Both favored evolution-friendly science standards.
MISSOURI
McCaskill defeats Akin in Senate race
McCaskill's victory denies Republicans a seat they'd hoped to pick up before Akin's comments.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Claire McCaskill has won re-election in Missouri, holding off Rep. Todd Akin who came under fire for saying women had ways of preventing pregnancies in the case of "legitimate rape."
NATION
Democrats have picked up two Senate seats from the Republicans — Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts and Joe Donnelly in Indiana
As of 10:45 p.m. Eastern time, Democrats had locked up 45 seats, Republicans 42, including 67 seats not up for election. Democrats now hold a 53-seat majority, including two independents who align with them.
— while the GOP has lost three seats, including to an independent in Maine.
Associated Press
Obama promises prosperity
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama rolled to re-election Tuesday night, vanquishing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney despite a weak economy that plagued his first term and put a crimp in the middle class dreams of millions.
In victory, he confidently promised better days ahead.
Obama spoke to thousands of cheering supporters in his hometown of Chicago, praising Romney and declaring his optimism for the next four years. "While our road has been hard, though our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come," he said.
Romney made his own graceful concession speech before a
disappointed crowd in Boston. He summoned all Americans to pray for Obama and urged the night's political winners to put partisan bickering aside and "reach across the aisle" to tackle the nation's problems.
Still, after the costliest — and one of the nastiest — campaigns in history, divided government was alive and well.
Democrats retained control of the Senate with surprising ease.
Republicans did the same in the House, ensuring that Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, Obama's partner in unsuccessful deficit talks, would reclaim at the bargaining table.
At Obama headquarters in Chicago, a huge crowd gathered waving small American flags and cheering.
Supporters hugged each other, danced and pumped their fists in the air.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Barack Obama waves as he walks on stage with first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha at his election night party last night in Chicago.
SUPREME COURT
Yes
G. JOSEPH PIERRON, JR. Yes
NANCY L. MORITZ
COURT OF APPEALS
DAVID E. BRUNS Yes
Yes
State Judges
STEVE LEBEN
G. GORDON ATCHESON Yes
Will they be retained in office?
DISTRICT COURT
KAREN ARNOLD-BURGER Yes
State
MICHAEL J. MALONE Yes
BARBARA KAY HUFF Yes
COUNTY COMMISSIONER (3rd District)
James Flory
RICHARD D. GREENE Yes
STATE SENATE (2ND DISTRICT)
PAULA Yes
COUNTY COMMISSIONER (2nd District)
Marci Francisco
STATE SENATE (19TH DISTRICT)
STATE SENATE
(3RD DISTRICT)
Local
Tom Holland
Casey Moore
Nancy Thellman