This is the only poll of this race I'm aware of.  Senator Roberts aggressively pushed U.S. farm policy towards a "free trade" based approach, claiming we would export our way to prosperity.  His 1996 "Freedom to Farm" bill was a big giveaway to Cargill, Tyson and ADM.  Too bad his numbers were astoundingly wrong.  We have lost our ag surplus. Roberts has never seen a trade agreement he did not like, and probably has not read one.

Jim Slattery is the challenger.  He was a KS Congressman until 1994, when he was beaten in the Gingrich revolution.  He is for trade reform, and for enforcing the rules. 

This is the first serious poll conducted in the race.  Rasmussen is a top tier polling outfit.  The 12 point deficit is surprisingly close.  Slattery has been out of the public eye for 14 years.  No Democrat has been elected to the Senate in Kansas since 1932.  So I would expect a 25+ point deficit.   

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