Hipsters Share History Of American Faith-Based Politics To Support Rev. Hamilton

A recent missive from The Pitch reads more like campaign lit than community news . . . But we share it if only to offer a peek at local journalism spin going full steam in order to flip Kansas.

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A Kansas Democrat now has a reasonable shot at being elected to the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1932. National news outlets increasingly report that Kansas is in play and that GOP nominee Roger “Doc” Marshall, infamous for suing hundreds of his own patients for payment and owning more stuff in Florida than in Kansas, is sweating bullets over the challenge from Democratic hopeful Adam Hamilton.

Hamilton has more in common withWilliam Jennings Bryan, the prairie populist who said God wants us to care for the poor, than with Democrat George McGill, a Wichita lawyer elected to his last U.S. Senate term in 1932.

Hamilton is a megachurch pastor from Leawood, and he’s saying some of the same things Bryan did, and getting national attention for it. During the senatorial debate Sept. 12 at the Kansas State Fair, Hamilton said he’s spent the last 38 years trying to teach people “what does it mean to be a decent human being, how are we meant to live our lives, to love God and to love our neighbor.”

Bryan is remembered today, if at all, as an antique from a bygone era.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Nobody knows if Adam Hamilton will win in Kansas. But he's already defined a populism of decency