Johnson County, KS had their first day of in-person early voting on Saturday. 2026: 12,619 ballots cast 61% D, 26% R. For comparison, 2022: 5,394 ballots cast 46% D, 43% R. 2024: 14,328 ballots cast 42% D, 43% R. ike-lab.com/dailyev_2611...

Advance Voting Stats for November 3, 2026

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"Can you go from the Missouri border to the Oklahoma border only passing through state leg districts that voted no on the August amendment?" Surprisingly yes

Coming today: breakdowns of the statewide races from the August primary, including the amendment vote! #ksleg

Love visiting my hometown, but my wife and I would have to either commute an hour to Green Bay to work, or change careers

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last wk.

i know i’m getting old when i visit my hometown — which i was desperate to escape — and think, “you know, this place isn’t so bad”

[looking at roster of the first Kansas House] Why is the guy nicknamed “Bullet Hole” Ellis [googles picture] Ah

Going through some old Kansas legislative handbooks. Hadn't realized how close we got to having the initiative, it passed the Senate and was 8 votes short in the House. (Also, southeast Kansas was electing socialists in this era!)

This is less nerdy than reality

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Launched in May, “the page uses data from customers’ activity to generate details about them in categories like Product Preferences, Interests & Hobbies, and Home & Family, which Amazon then uses to personalize users’ product experiences.”

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The Cook Political Report@cookpolitical.com · 2w ago

Today, The Cook Political Report is moving three Senate races, all towards Democrats. • Kansas from Lean R -> Toss Up • North Carolina from Lean D -> Likely D • New Hampshire from Toss Up -> Lean D Read @jessicataylor.bsky.social's full analysis:

David Wain has the better hit rate, but kudos to Sho for mixing it up more

The NFC North, where all the teams are above average

Ben Baldwin@rbsdm.com · 4w ago

The NFC West is very good

Gerrymandering

My brother just started doing a read along of the Power Broker if you also want to be exhausting youtube.com/shorts/g0RdA...

The Power Broker Read-Along: Part 1, The Idealist #booktube #readalong

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DC Pierson@dcpierson.bsky.social · last mo.

On this day 52 years ago, Robert A. Caro published “The Power Broker” and forever changed how exhausting boyfriends could be

Shows about fictional genius comedians usually don’t work because you have to be a genius comedian yourself to write their material, and Aaron Sorkin wasn’t. Marvelous Mrs Maisel had the same problem. Ironically, 30 Rock did have genius writers, and they chose to make TGS bad because that’s funnier

Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media@disc-connected.bsky.social · last mo.

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on October 20th on Blu-ray in the US from #WarnerArchive: #Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip: The Complete Series (2006-2007)! What goes on behind the scenes of a nationwide late-night comedy sketch show? Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing, answers that question with a

I know the author thinks he’s complimenting them, but this is basically a noble savage view of country music listeners

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · last mo.

I see the NYT is still platforming 'dei crushed white men' bullsh*t. Here it's buried in a 'why rural themed pop culture' is so popular in a piece written by a Princeton grad who lives in New York City. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...

Once one of these asks about a bubbler it locks me in

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 2mo ago

near 20 years in texas and i still got my northeastern roots mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

haha oh no

I started and didn’t finish Darjeeling Limited like 15 years ago, figured it was time to try it again. I’m usually a Wes Anderson defender but this one makes me understand the criticisms

Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · 2mo ago

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 🚪

I wrote a post about Clarkson's claims of vote anomalies the 2014 election while I was in grad school, years before I knew I'd also be at Wichita State. The blog I posted it on has been dead for years, but I just reposted it to my site: brianamos.com/ks_vote_frau...

Kansasdotcom@kansas.com · 2mo ago

Wichita State researcher tests voting machine counts, paying for hand recount of ballots from the Aug. 3 primary election.

At that point, the metaphor becomes “should you charge a person buying and selling conscious beings a licensing fee for the art they give them” and it’s like, yeah sure I don’t have qualms about that part of it

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One day C3PO tells you he loves art. He has also looked at a great deal of art, and would suffer greatly due to not being allowed to make art. Is it ethical to forbid him from making art?

In case you’re wondering why the amendment to move the Supreme Court to elections was on the ballot last week (it failed!).

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Six of the Kansas supreme court's 7 sitting members were appointed by a Democratic governor, and 4 of them won’t hit the mandatory retirement age until the 2040s.

five days in a row 104+ haha this sucks

I fell asleep putting my daughter to bed last night and missed all of this. It was great!

biftechnoir@kenmegalopsuxos.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This bit just now with Kornacki getting word Wisconsin election officials fucked up was pure cinema.

Just today, I got a text from an anti-Hamilton PAC and a Marshall canvasser knocking my door. The primary was last week, Republicans are not taking this senate race for granted.

Lol my first apartment when I moved to Wichita is in this district, it borders WSU.

Wow

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 3mo ago

AP calls a DEFEAT for Kansas Amendment 1, which would have replaced the current merit-based selection of state Supreme Court justices with partisan statewide elections. GOP wanted this change to try to overturn a ruling protecting abortion rights, but voters emphatically said no.

It’s just the early vote and only for three counties, but the worst Trump did out of these three was 73%. Not a good sign for yes

Happy Election Day! Early in-person voting is done, and the numbers from the SOS this morning should be nearly final (some counties are stragglers on reporting). We had 162k, which is well above Aug 24 (63k), but below the historically high Aug 22 (215k). ike-lab.com/dailyev_2608... #ksleg

Seems like this undermines the supporters' case for the amendment: if this election is being influenced by big liberal outside money, wouldn't the elections for state supreme court be vulnerable to that money, as well? sunflowerstatejournal.com/judicial-ame...

It's a bummer. My logs say @ike-lab.com has gotten more than 100,000 unique visits this month. Our big election spike in 2024 was just under 5,000. The August primary is not getting 20x the attention. Also, there are a lot of 404s looking for WordPress files and directories, which IKE doesn't use.

Walter Hickey@walthickey.bsky.social · 3mo ago

fascinating story from one of the best movie data guys about one of the best movie data guys stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-...

Our advance voting tracker for the August 4th Kansas primary is slowly growing. All 105 counties have now reported data for ballots mailed, and we have our first in-person votes from yesterday. #ksleg ike-lab.com/dailyev_2608...