Though fractured, GOP is still favored

Last week’s Kansas primaries revealed just how fractured the state’s Republican party is.
Consider this — Republicans are on the precipice of ousting a sitting governor in a party primary for the first time since 1954 in favor of a conservative lightning rod whom the Republican Governors Association doesn’t want as a candidate. And yet the GOP remains the favorite to retain its hold on the governor’s office, no matter who eventually emerges from the primary.
There’s an old saying that Democrats want to fall in love, while Republicans want to fall in line. Well, someone…