The Washington Post started the month with another in what seems to be a series of stories proclaiming electoral doom for Republicans. This was the front-page headline: “Kansas’s blue hope: In a deep-red state ruled by Koch money, buoyed Democrats toil to flip seats one yard sale at a time.” Let’s leave aside the interesting question of whether the state of Kansas is, in fact, “ruled by Koch money”—Koch Industries may be headquartered in Wichita, but the Post offered no evidence the company somehow “rules” the state. No, what intrigued us was the headline’s promise that a red-to-blue revolution is coming.
The front-page photograph featured three women, political activists all, celebrating a purchase at a Democratic fundraising yard sale. On the jump-page were photos of a few other women at the same yard sale. If this is a groundswell, where is everybody?
