The most important governor's race

Sure, Republicans might take the Senate. But if Sam Brownback loses the governorship in Kansas, which is a strong possibility, then it is a massive demonstration that when taken to the extreme, hard right conservative positions when implemented DON'T WORK.

And this is happening in an extraordinarily conservative-friendly state, a state that could actually elect Sam Brownback governor in the first place.  A place where being a Republican probably also means you're very likely a Tea Party Republican.

A state where school boards still try to get creationism taught in science classrooms, and a state where they also try to get pseudoscientific climate skeptic claptrap taught as science, in the name of "balance".

I'm sure there are a lot more extreme conservative positions I could note about Kansas.  But I don't need to, it's easy to investigate.  What I'm going to note is that the conservative Republicans of Kansas are discovering that it's not a good thing for your government to be extremely conservative.  Things like public safety and public education and roads and bridges and libraries and garbage pickup all suffer.  As does the basic economy and job growth and things like that.

So Brownback losing is a point that all Democrats running against highly conservative Republicans can use.  As in  "They tried that in Kansas, and it didn't work.  So how do you propose to do it any differently, so it WOULD work?"

Good luck with that question, GOP.