Poll shows Roberts ahead: Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius recently told reporters in Denver that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama could win Kansas in November's presidential election. ... But a Web site, www.fivethirtyeight.com, which utilizes polling data to simulate election outcomes, suggests that Obama has a difficult task before him. Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts' probability of besting his likely Democratic challenger, former U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, is at 88 percent. But the site's current national projection is that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama wins the White House over Arizona GOP Sen. John McCain. (CQPolitics.com) Analyst lists Boyda's seat as 'no clear favorite' versus Ryun or Jenkins: New York 25 was a close call over some of the five Democratic-held districts with races currently rated as tossups, such as Kansas 2, a...
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